nature

When I was a girl, I used to believe that when It was raining with lightning and thounder, It was because God was very furious. In that moment, I was hiding myself under my bed and I was starting to cry.

When I was little, there were these huge woods behind my house that I used to explore. One day I saw someone's old bicycle that was fused with a tree that was growing, and I was convinced for years that when people didn't want their bikes, they left them for the trees to eat.

I thought for sure I was going to encounter quicksand at moment, so I always looked for a quicksand exit strategy wherever I was.

When I first went to kindergarden we started learning about weather and i was crushed to learn that trees didn't make wind, I always thought this because whenever it was windy the trees were moving.

When I looked outside and I saw how the moon would change from one day to weeks later, I thought it was from "smurfs", or little blue alien people eating the moon because I thought it was made of cheese. The less of the moon was showing, the more the "smurfs" ate. And when it was a new moon, the "smurfs" would eat all of it and slowly the moon cheese would grow back to a full moon, and that's when the "smurfs" would start eating it again.

One day when I was about 6 years old, I was watching the weather and I noticed on the bottom of the screen it said, "Skycast: Green".

Being so young and hearing that when the sky turned green, tornadoes were likely to happen, I started crying my eyes out.

My mom told me, "They don't mean the sky is actually green; they just mean there's not that much pollen in the air. Now calm down!"

That confused the crap outta me for a year or two. :P

At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!

i used to think that clouds were smoke. we live by those big towers that always have fumes coming out. i thought that the smoke was clouds because it was always cloudy in that area...i was a weird child.

when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that

When I was a kid I remember hearing about and watching rockets being sent into space. I asked my mum about it and she explained that they were learning stuff about space so they sent someone up there to look around, but it cost a lot of money and could be dangerous.

For years I couldn't understand why they didn't just ask superman to go have a look for them.

In Illinois, we had a bad storm and were under a tornado watch. The family hid in the basement, and the whole time I thought we were hiding from "tomatoes". I was too you to understand "tornado", and thought they said "Run, get downstairs, there's a tomato coming!"

I use to believe that the earth rotates on actually axes....i just pictured it spinning on red handle axes

I grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania and I used to believe that the trees would start waving and make it windy. . . the more they waved, the windier it got.

I grew up in Lassen National Park on Hwy 44 in California. I used to believe that the volcano would explode and erupt lava and pick up my house and send it down a hill on a river of molten lava....

I used to believe that tornadoes were giant slices of tomatoes that rolled across a farm. It wasn't untill I was five and saw the Wizard of Oz that I realized it was not a giant slice of tomotoe.

I always thought the sound of the crickets chirping at night was the sound of the stars twinkling. I thought a “twinkle” was a sound. In my mind I imagined the stars kind of flickering while they made the noise.