I used to believe that when people talked about the tectonic plates, they meant that the entire earth rested on two dinner plates and that is what kept the earth in space. Because of this, I couldn't understand how the whole earth didn't shake when there was an earthquake.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- i used to think stigmata meant the really clear, white sunbeams that you could see reaching down to the earth.— lora
- i used to believe that you could see 2 suns from somewhere on earth— bramblepicker
- I used to believe we lived IN the earth rather than ON it.— AC
- I used to believe that the earth was flat.— Rt.y
- That if there was an Antarctica, there had to be and Arctica somewhere on the other end of the earth. — tammy