When my mother was little she believed that night was the result of the world being put inside a paper bag so everyone could go to sleep. The stars and the moon was the outside light shining through the air holes.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that stars were holes in the sky & we could see heaven shining through— June
- I used to think that the moon and stars were holes in the sky that you could see heaven through.Anon
- I used to believe all the stars in the sky were really just aliens with flashlights shining them at Earth.— Lyssy
- I used to believe that God was the light rays shining through the clouds.— Lynn
- I used to believe that the sun, stars, and moon were following me when in a car.— Toy
- i used to believe that stars were people in heaven and the moon was god— Jessica