I grew up right by the ocean, but refused to learn to swim because the water was green. My logic was as follows:
Water is blue.
Wee is yellow.
Blue + yellow = green.
I was convinced the ocean was green from all the people weeing in it!
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There is a star cluster called the Hyadees (pronounced "HIGH-uh-deez"), which makes up the bull's face in the constellation of Taurus, the bull. My niece, Heidi, when she was a child, thought it was her very own star cluster, because "Hyades star cluster" sounds quite similar to "Heidi's star cluster'
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When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.
When my daughter was very young she saw a tornado on the news and was completely freaked out for days. Since we lived about as far from tornado alley as you can get, and up on a hill, I told her that tornados could not go up hills. It was just this year, while at college, that she found out differently. Oops, bad mommy!
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When I was little I thought that reincarnation meant that you turned into a walking and talking carnation if you weren't succesfull in life.
I used to belive that when it rained god was crying because I did something bad again
when I was young, I used to believe that if I jumped into a deep puddle, I would jump all the way down to Australia...I think it was mum's way of deterring me from jumping in the puddles in the first place :D
I used to believe that you could tell if a tornado was coming because the wind would blow really hard, but the trees wouldn't move. I was never concerned about a tornado coming because the trees were always swaying.
I once thought that trees swaying in the wind was causing the wind, acting as fans.
when i was in kindergarten i thought that balck holes formed from people shooting guns in space.
my friends little brother still believes that rainbows form because god is so happy when the rain dries up that he makes colors in the sky.
when i was in preschool there was this tree outside that had a peice of bark on it that looked like a button i thaught if you pressed it hard enaugh the tree would open up revieling treasure,
I thought that if you wet the ground with a garden hose or sprinkler, it would make it rain.
I was convinced you could make a pair of shoes out of conkers, if only you could peel them and mould them before they turned from white to brown. I still haven't given up on this one, actually...
Thunder was the people who were already in heaven bowling.
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I used to believe that a tornado was a giant red tomato that rolled through cities and towns.
I used to think that the sunset was the Sun seperating into the millions of stars in the sky. The stars would, of course, recollect again at sunrise to make the Sun again.
I remember this making perfect sense in my head at the time too :o)
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When I was little my brother and sister convinced me that if you planted a sesame seed in the garden a plant would grow out of it, which would have a load of T.V's on it which showed "Sesame Street"...
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My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds
i used to belive that the earth had a glass case ove r it