nature

As a kid I had heard that song 'there's a hole in the bottom of the ocean, there's a hole in the bottom of the sea.' I had also been read that 'Cinese Brothers' story about the boy who could swallow the whole ocean. So the two got linked in my mind.

After that, I thought if I went swimming I would get sucked into the hole. Even though we lived near the beach, I refused to even stick a toe in the water for years after that.

I used to believe that there were male and female rainbows. Male rainbows were shaped like a curved arch (what you usually see) and female rainbows were shaped like a ribbon tied in a bow. Of course, female rainbows were very rare.

When I was 3, my brother told me there was a new kind of bee that looked just like dandelion seeds. It was late summer, and I had never experienced quite that level of terror before.

When I was a kid, I somehow got it in my head that humans inhabited both Earth and Jupiter. The image in my mind was that the people of Jupiter were just like us, except that their world leaders sat at a long formal table and talked to Earth via televisions. I was very dissapointed when I learned the truth, and realized I would never be able to visit Jupiter.

During one snowy day when we were about 12 years old, my friend revealed to me that he still believed what his mother told him, when he was little, about where snow came from: That snow was actually clouds that fell to earth. I chastised him no end.

When I was 3 or 4, my dad told me that it was cold on Mars. Being an impressionable child, I assumed that Mars was the outermost planet in the solar system. Fortunately, an early obsession with outer space fixed that when I was 6 or 7.

I used to believe when it was thundering and raining that God was bowling. And evry time it thundered the ball was rolling down the lane. And when the lightning occured, he jjust made a strike.

when i was little i used to believe that the reason mt. rushmore was so special was because it was a natural occurence. i was actually disappointed when i found out it was man-made. weird kid, huh?

I had resonantly learned that the Earth was round, so I thought an obvious consequence had to be that we would experience this: -“Ah, so that’s why there are hills – they are in fact the curving of the Earth!”

I used to believe we lived on the INSIDE of the earth instead of on top of it because I would hear them say "The astronauts broke through the crust of the earth" and I was amazed they could get through all that dirt.

I used to believe that the smell of chocolate was a universal sign that it was going to rain. Adults would say, "I can smell chocolate. It must be going to rain." Then I realized that it was because I lived in Selly Oak, Birmingham and the wind that came from the direction of Cadbury's factory was the wind that often brought rain.

When my children were little there was a asphalt plant in the town we lived in and it had a smoke stack. And I told them it was a cloud machine and for years they believed it and told others untill they were about 12 years old.

When I was little, I believed my own little thunder storm "legend". You see, there was a dragon god, Nathan, and he guarded the skies. Thunder was him roaring, lighting was his fire, and all the wind was from his wings flapping as he flew. I never shared my 'philoshopy', it was my secret afterall. Me and my weird immagination...

When I first learned about fossils in early grade school I thought I could go into the far back yard and carefully place a leaf on a rock and in a few days it would become a fossil.

I used to think that there were many moons. Full moon, half moon, sliver moon, etc. At some point I heard about new moon, and asked my dad what that was. Of course, he explained that it was all the same moon, only parts of it were in shadow.

I used to believe that tornados were giants that looked like the Jolly Green Giant except that they were red like tomatoes. I was always afraid one would come loudly walking up to our house and try to reach in thru our back windows to get me.