I grew up in the city, where at night there are a lot of city lights, but very few stars in the sky. After a camping trip, where there were no city lights but so, so many stars in the sky, I believed that city lights were stars that fell to the ground.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!Anon
- I used to believe the rain drops that fell from my roof at night were shooting stars— Kay
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart