when it used to rain when i was little i used to sit and cry becasue i was scared that it wouldnt never stop and that we would be flooded and live in an ark like noah.
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When I was a kid there were huge trees opposite our house. Unsurprisingly I thought that the wind was caused by the trees waving about!
I used to believe that when it rained it was raining everywhere in the world
I used to believe that if it was raining, it was raining all over the world at the same time!
Near my grandparents house was a field which contained a large round stone surrounded by a ring of trees. My Grandad once told me that every new years eve at midnight, the stone would sprout legs and run around the field three times. I still plan a trip to that field in new years eve to verify that.
When the BBC used to show a graphic of the rotating globe (who else remembers the old 70s blue & orange logo?), I remember looking at the coastlines of the Americas and Africa, and thinking "They look like they could join up... I wonder if anyone's noticed?"
As a young and very guilable 15 year old I was given to beleave by some much older and 'wiser' work mates that the windows in igloos were made from freezeing 'hot' water, it was only many years later it came to me how i'd been had.
I have always lived very near to a power station, and I used to believe it was a cloud making machine.
I used to believe that cooling towers were really just cloud making machines
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As a small child I was terribly worried that a polar explorer would drop a match, melt the ice-cap and drown everybody
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i used to believe that the moon was the sun at night, and still have some trouble coming to terms with the fact that it isnt.
A girl in my class brought in a little tiki statue that she said was made from lava. I thought if it broke open there would be fiery hot lava inside. I also believed certain seed pods had bees inside them.
When I was little and afraid of storms, my Mom would tell be when it thundered that it was the angels bowling in the clouds. I didn't really believe it though.
My son, Matthew was convinced that the machine we used for cutting his nanny's grass was called a "LAWN LOWER"- and who's to say he was wrong!
When I was little my brother gave me a scientific explanation for why ocean water was salty. He told me that kids on the beach would throw sand in the water, which would disolve and become salt. I believed this for a long time.
I used to believe that we lived inside the world, not on it. I thought there was the outer layer of the earth behind the sky, and once asked my dad how could space shuttles pierce through the thick layer of soil surrounding (!) the sky!
When i was younger my dad used to take me and my brother mushroom catching.
We had to leave at about 6 in the morning so that the mushrooms would still be asleep. We had to creep up the field slowly and throw our coats over them before they ran away.
When I was like 5 or something, I used to be afraid of the snow. The first time it snowed, I was scared to walk on the snow cause I thought If I did, I would fall down past the snow into no where cause I thought the grass was gone. I would walk slowly and be scared, thinking soon I would fall deep down. My dad soon told me that I wouldn't disappear in the snow.....
When I was a child I was scared of thunder and lightning. So my mother told me that it was God bowling, the rumble was the sound of the ball going down the lane and the "crash" was God getting a strike. She never did explain why there was lightning though....
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When I was little I used to think that Phoenix palm trees were pineapples that some one forgot to pick