At dusk, when the sky would turn pretty swirling colors my mom would tell me, "Santa's making candy!" To this day whenever I see a pretty sky at night, I get nostalgic and think about all the ways I'm going to lie to my kids when they're old enough to understand, but young enough not to know better.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that little drawf men were inside each traffic light, making them change colors. — alisha
- I used to believe that crayons were candy and the colors were flavors. We went through a lot of crayonsAnon
- I used to believe that thunder was Santa making toys.Anon
- I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU STARED AT A PERSON, THEY COULD NOT TELL YOU WERE STARING AT THEM. PRETTY STUPIDAnon
- i use to think boy geroge from the culture club was a pretty woman.— toe
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly