nature

I used to think heirloom plants grew antiques

I used to believe that each continent was a planet so you'd have to go into space to travel from one continent to another.

I used to believe I could control the weather. One day when I was about 7 my daddy was planning a fishing trip and wouldn't take me. We were watching the news and it was supposed to be sunny, I was so mad I couldn't go I wished it would rain. It did. I was so amazed with myself I wasn't even mad when he went anyway!

As a child there was a Muller corner advert on the UK television in which a pretty woman picked a yogurt pot from her own yogurt tree before she ate it. I'm unsure how I got the idea that this was fact, but on a few occasions my parents allowed me to bury my empty yogurt pots in our back garden due to my childish desire to grow my own yogurt tree... Biggest disappointment of my childhood

I used to believe that volcanoes were filled with ladybugs, and that a jazz band lived inside the bottom. When the volcano erupted it was the ladybugs dancing to the jazz bamd

I used to think that clouds could be touched.

I used to believe that a thunderstorm was caused by angels bowling, that it would thunder when one of them got a strike!

I used to believe... That clouds, were God's farts and burps. Rain was his tears. Lighting a thunder appeared because he was mad. Sunny days were his happy days. Windy days were his sneezy days. I also used to believe that angels hid in the clouds and they had special visiting days and days to cry over missing their loved ones (rainy days).

When I was about 5, we used to go to my grandmother's house. She lived in a village, where was a place, where the was an echo. We always shouted, and heard the resound. Once I asked: How it works? What is this phenomenon exactly? She said: On the otherside there's a child, who shouts back the same words. (It was easier to say this for a little child.) I always tried to see him, who "lived" next to the forest on the otherside, but actually I couldn't make it out whether there was standing or not.xD

I thought when it was raining God / Angels were crying & When it was thundering & lighting God was mad at his wife. .. sounds good to me still!

I used to believe that when the sky was pink, late at the afternoon, the angels made cookies!

Whenever I was told paper was made from trees, I thought it was made with the leaves and not the wood. I agreed with the whole Save Trees! philosophy, but I secretly thought "What's the big deal, if leaves grow back anyways?"
It was until I was like 12 I understood paper was made with wood.

This story is actually two of my mom's childhood beliefs. When she was about 6 her parents decided to give her her very own plant to take care of (still too young for her own pet). They said that adding a little sugar water to the pot would help it grow, and so she concluded that meant all seasonings would help it. For a little while she sprinkled sugar, salt, and pepper in her plant - which of course killed it. For many years afterward she was convinced that she could never have a plant again because it would "know" what happened to the last one and die as punishment. To this day, she really does still have a "black thumb" and is terrible with plants.

i used to think that when we were driving the moon followed us.

I used to believe…

to keep me from being afraid of thunder, my dad always referred to it as "Mr. Thunder"
when I heard the expression "roll of thunder" my image of thunder became a giant rolled-up rug made of grey clouds with a grumpy face. whenever the thunder came I imagined the rug rolling out...

when I was little I used to think that if I dug down deep enough on the sand at the beach I could dig my way to china. I was crushed when I discovered I would have to travel through molten rock to get there