nature

I used to think Sissy Spacek and Kevin Spacey were astronauts and that they lived on Venus.

I used to believe that If i wished on the moon, it would come true.

The clouds used to make a terrible noise sometimes as they moved overhead. I thought they were grinding against each other. It was very loud because the clouds were so big.
But it was just the noise of planes... which look so small when you look at them in the sky that I didn't believe it when I was first told.

I used to believe that each person/family in the world lived on a different planet in the solar system. My family and I, for example, lived on Earth, while my friend lived on the moon. Another friend of mine then, quite obviously, lived on Mars, and so on. I realised this was wrong when I noticed I was able to visit my friends at their houses without any help from NASA.

I have no idea if I formed this meme myself or some unknown person gave it to me. I thought that the "man in the moon" face was "deciphered" (ie. the craters' pattern was called a face) after Neil Armstrong fell in one of the moon craters and couldn't get out, and the rest of the astronauts had to come back to Earth without him, and so they called it a face posthumously in his honour.

When I was small, perhaps 4 or 5, I found an atlas with a fold-out picture of the solar system. I showed the Sun and the planets spaced about it, the asteroid belt between the Mars and the outer solar system, and so on.

I could not conceive how these things would be floating around out there, so I reasoned, since things fall on Earth, they must be falling out there too. Only they had to fall all at the same rate to stick together and still be a solar system. What they were falling toward I never defined.

I also thought there must have been balls of gravity to which the dust from interstellar space stuck to form the planets...in the same way lint sticks to tape when your mother dresses you up in uncomfortable clothes to go to a wedding and you played with the dog and now Mom has to get tape and take all the dog hair off your nice clothes.

I also remember being amazed to learn the Germans used the same numbers we do. Sneaky bunch, stealing our numbers.

When i was small i liked reading about animals, and then i soon got to know the way of naming animals and trees from kingdom to class to family then genus and species..

One day while cycling around somewhere in my neighbourhood, i heard these 2 woman who were drunk screaming 'peanus' and i thought that peanus is another species of peanut.. until i was 11 years old

For the longest time, I thought that when I saw the moon in the daytime, that what I was really seeing was the other side of the world. I assumed that was where the Chinese and Africans lived. Never occurred to me how to get there, though...

For quite a while, I believed that space shuttles could only go to the moon at night, because you can't see the moon during the day and therefore wouldn't be able to navigate your way to it.

My dad told me the moon was lit exclusively by lite reflected from the earth and believed it himself. I could never figure how a reflection could produce a crescent.

I used to think that the numbers next to the cities on the weather map we codes which described a particular weather configuration. It took me a while to realise it was actually just the temperature. I over complicated some things as a child...

I used to believe that the moon followed me around wherever I went. Going on car trips with my parents, I'd look out the window and it was always there... following me. Actually it still does!

As a kid, I used to think that we lived inside the Earth, rather than on the surface (before I knew about the atmosphere, gravity, etc). I've recently learned that there's a theory devoted to this preposterous notion called 'The Inner Earth Theory'.

I used to think a "tornado" was Mr. Clean. When there would be "tornado warnings" I was scared of him. I usually slept in my parents room.

when i was very young,some boys told me while digging in the dirt,that the roots were the fingers of the devil and not to let themget a hold of you ,so i'd cope at them with a stick.

I used to believe the old story of how water drains backwards in the southern hemisphere. I believed this until I was 24 years old and actually researched it. I regularily run into people who still think it is true, but I can't laugh at them because... well, that used to be me.