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*old grandad voice* when i was young my dad showed me the Dr who shows. very entertaining till one day my mum suggested we go down the garden to get in the "garlics". the site of a 5 year old doin the "exterminate" stil brings tears to her eyes
When we used to drive around in the car at night when i was younger, i always thought the moon followed me wherever i went.
"The stars that you see in the night sky are actually stars from the age of the dinosaurs, because the light is taking so long to reach the earth." I heard this when i was about six years old (on a tv show about supernovas probably), and i was very disturbed that our picture of the sky was so out of date. I had a sneaking suspicion that we were missing out on a lot of good explosions, and was firm in my convictions that if the outer universe was to explode we wouldn't know until we were extinct. i was a philosophical little girl even then.
When i heard the word "tornado" i thought that people were saying "tomatoe" and when i saw houses flattened by "tomatoes" i thought that big pieces of tomatoes dropped down on peoples houses.
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I used to believe that when it thundered it was God moving the furniture around up in heaven!
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When I was little I was afraid to cross a field with dandelions in it because I thought the dandelions were real lions and that they would attack me.
When I was in grade 2 I was at Nanaimo B.C with my family. I was looking off the dock into the ocean and saw a HUGE bath plug at the bottom of the ocean. I told eveyerone afterwards that i had seen the plug to the ocean, and that if it was pulled the ocean water would get drained. I still think that if you pull that thing, there will no longer be a pacific ocean. Im 15 now.
When I was 4, my family moved to a town near Wollongong, on the New South Wales South Coast. We were very close to a mountain range - and somehow I got this bizarre notion into my head that, behind the mountains, there was a huge plain inhabited by dinosaurs.
It took a few weeks to shake this odd belief - and until I did, I used to get worried that whenever my family had to drive up into the mountains to get to Sydney, we might see over the other side to where the dinosaurs were.
I used to belive that the moon was full of candy.
After I misplaced my rock collection from the beach, I was playing in the backyard and started digging a hole. In the hole I found rocks! I was certain that my dad had buried my rock collection to hide it from me.
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One night when I was little, my Mom said "Oh, look at the full moon!" I asked "Are all the other moons hungry?"
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i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.
I used to believe that smoke stacks from buildings the expelled white smoke were cloud making facilities, and when I would ride past one I would watch them to see how many clouds they made in the sky.
My dad worked on a plant of some sort. They had those huge stacks with all the smoke coming out. One day I went up there with my mom and I saw the smoke, I truly believed that my dad made clouds all day! But no, he was just polluting.. ha.
I used to believe that the sky was like a ceiling and that if you flew high enough you could touch it. I felt completely safe and cozy with that believe until the teacher told us about space and gravity. I tried not to think about it! One day I was on the front lawn spinning around and around...I finally fell on my back, dizzy...and thought about what the teacher said. I held onto the grass for dear life! I just knew I was going to float away into outer space!
When I was about three or four, we had a summer of very severe thunderstorms, with hail, several tornados and other things. My mother would send us all down to the basement if a cloud so much as looked like a funnel, and I got the idea that this was because a tornado would knock on your front door, and if you answered it, then it would blow your house away.
Obviously we were hiding in the basement so that the tornado wouldn't think we were home.
I was about 6-- After I saw the movie Mary Poppins, I thought that people really could fly if they held an umbrella in the wind.
One day there was a storm, with a lot of wind rattling the windows. I argued with my mother for what seemed like HOURS, to let me go outside with an umbrella and fly.
When I was little I used to think that thunder and lightning was God having a party in heaven with Jesus because they got bored up there. I thought that the thunder was the loud music or someone passing out on the floor, and the lightning was the strobe lights. Boy was I taught to believe wierd things! I suppose it's because my mum thought I was too young to understand science when I was 3 :D
When I was much smaller, I lived quite close to a Highway, in a qutie rural location with lots of trees and fields. Everytime a whole bunch of cars or a big transport would speed past my house, all of the trees would be caused to breeze over. Thus, I thought that wind came from cars and trucks driving really fast!
One day in kindergarten my teacher was going over tornado safety with us. One kid mistakenly said that you should go outside during a tornado. The teacher corrected her and said, "No, then you end up just like Dorothy" (from The Wizard of Oz). For the longest time after that I thought that tornadoes carried people to Oz instead of killing them (luckily I had no desire to go to Oz or my parents would've had problems-then again, we never had any tornadoes).
