nature

When I was a little kid, I thought that whenever there was thunder and lightning, that it meant God and His angels were bowling.

My grandmother would take me on walks on warm, summer evenings. I would
hear these noises (which I found out later were crickets) and asked my
grandmother what they were. She told me "That's the sound the stars
make when they twinkle." To this day I think of her every time I hear
the summer crickets.

My mom told me that thunder was when God was very angry at something. So I used to believe that until a science class helped me get over that :)

I had a charming meteorological theory when I was young.

Drizzle - God's spit
Snow - God's dandruff
Rain - God, er, relieving himself.

My parents told me a rainbow only occurred when 2 animals got married in the forrest...I believed this up to the age of 11!!!! I didn't really feel I could question my science teacher when we learned the real reason behind rainbows + light spectrums.

I used to believe the banded sunset sky was the atmosphere of Jupiter! When I was 6 I studied the planets and I knew that Jupiter had pretty colored bands of clouds and that it was REALLY BIG. So when we occasionally got beautiful banded sunsets, I thought I was seeing the atmosphere of Jupiter.

I used to believe that bugs had their homes inside of rocks behind the shiny "windows" of biotite mica. Our garden had numerous granite rocks and the mica appeared as utterly flat and shiny black pieces about as big as a fingernail.

When I was in fourth grade, I figured out the question that has puzzled scientists and theologists for centuries: I realized that the universe was a large shoebox under the Mr. Rogers' bed. I would have called a press conference to explain my revelation, but after I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out how I had arrived at that conclusion.

My dad was (and still is) an amateur astronomer. He told me about how we were all made of the same matter as stars. Me being about five at the time, I ran around looking to see if I could find "stardust" in things. I swear I saw some in a brick one time...

When I was a child I used to believe that stars were holes in the sky & we could see heaven shining through

My 3 year old son (who will be 4 in July)calls bushes "baby trees". :-)

When I was little, I used to think that if you water pine cones, they'll turn into porcupines. So I picked one off the gound and went back inside. I took care of it like a hampster!

When I was little I used to believe that if I saw lightening or heard thunder I would be struck and killed, espaecially if I moved. I used to stuff cotton wool in my ears and hide under the covers to prevent death. I still shut my eyes now.

I was led to believe that the thunder was the angels playing 10 pin bowling and that the lightening was caused when they knocked all the pins down

I used to believe thunder was the sound of two clouds colliding.

I used to believe rocks could grow, albeit very slowly over many years, because I misoverheard something my grandmother said to my mother when I was about 3.