I used to think that when I went outside at night with a flashlight and pointed it at the sky, that I was "making" a new star. And that for every time I turned the flashlight off and on while pointing at the sky I was making more and more stars.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the full moon was God's flashlight.Anon
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- I used to think that a company had boats all over the world making waves, and airplanes making cloudsAnon
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.Anon
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny