I used to think that the little blinking lights on airplanes were guns and they were shooting at each other.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- I used to believe that guerillas were monkeys with guns.— Dave D
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon