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I used to believe that if you stepped on a mushroom it would rain.
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My mom would always tell me that when it thunder and lightening God and the angels were bowling and that when the lightening hit God had made a strike. Later in life I told my children this and it helped them not to be afraid of a thunder and lightening storm.
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I used to think that the lines outlining each of the states found on a US map were really there.
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when I was a kid I was very skinny, and my mother was telling my that one day the wind will blow me.
Since than I was always putting stounes in my pockets.
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I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.
When I was a kid, having seen on television that lava from volcanoes would harden into rocks, I decided that all rocks must have been created by a volcano spewing out lava. I figured that different types of rocks resulted from the lava drying differently. I asked my mom about this and she said "well, that's not far off." I later learned about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock in school -- so I wasn't *completely* wrong!
I used to believe that during an earthquake, little lawn gnomes were on little ladders, shaking my house. Like literally surrounding my house and they would just hug the house and shake shake shake.
When I was a kid, I thought that the ocean was salty because little men dumped a giant saltshaker into it every night when everyone was asleep.
I used to believe that there is a real cloud that rain candies... till I was about 12 year old I realized that was a lie from my sister...
I was convinced that the moon was actually a spacecraft that was operated by a bunch of scientists who all looked like either Sigourney Weaver or Uhura from Star Trek, except for the captain who was an old fat bald-headed guy. They all used supercomputers to move the moon across the sky, and would make it rise at different times each day to confuse people.
When I was little I used to thing poincettias were called placentas. No one told me otherwise until I was about 12. I just remember being so happy to see so many placentas around Christmas time.
I used to believe that the weather forcasters on the TV actually created the weather and made the decission on what it was going to to.
Over 20 years ago (it is presently 2009) I felt sure that one day Pluto would be declared to be not a true planet (No kidding!).
I used to believe that when my parents talked about 'watching the ball drop' on New Year's Eve that everyone watched the moon fall from the sky. I didn't know it had anything to do with Dick Clark and Times Square!!
I used to think because when the lights were off lightening was white, if I turned the lights on it would turn black.
I used to believe that if I stuck my popsicle stick in the ground, a popsicle tree would grow.
When I was about 6 or 7 I watched that movie Volcano. I was really scared that a volcano would pop up in the middle of town and we would all die that I would run and hide whenever I heard a loud noise
When I was young, I was really interested in dinosaurs. My dad told me that they all died when a huge meteor hit the Earth. I got so scared that one would come from space and we would all die, that I would hide in the closet for protection every day, thinking that would save me.
I used to believe that trees made wind.
when i was about between the ages 6 and 8 i didn't like to go to sleep because i was afraid that a tornado would come and kill me in the middle of the night. and my mother still wonders why i would always put the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge...