nature

I used to believe…

that the mountains that i could see in the distance from my house were the barrier of everything. every other state or country had to be somewhere between the ocean on one side and the mountains on the other.

As a child, I was frequently on trips with my family to the Appalachian mountains, and that was the one place where I'd then seen Rhododendrons, which grow in abundance there. But we went on very few hiking trails, and what hiking we did do was very short, because my father had a bad knee. So most of our observatins were from or near roads, and all rhododendrons that I clearly saw were along or near roads. So I thought that was the only place they grew, and that the "rhod-" part of their name came from their occurrence alongside roads.

I used to believe that the sun and the moon were back to back and they turned around slowly at the appropriate time (thats why there was a sunrise and sunset)

I used to believe that craters were old dinosaur nests.

when i was little,my dad would bring me to his house on the weekend.One weekend at 2:00, and the next weekend at 6:00.Anyway my dad made me believe that he could control the tides of the ocean because on certain weekends the water was low and on the other weekends the water was high.

When I was about 7 my brother who was in preschool told me that in school he ran over a rainbow. I believed him and I couldn't wait for it to rain so I could "make a rainbow." Really he had just gone down a slide and pretended it was a rainbow.

When I was little my brother told me about the 'undertoad' of the ocean. For about three years after he told me this I was positive that every time I went near the ocean I would be grabbed by the giant undertoad and washe out to sea. I wouldn't even put my toes in the wavelets!

When I was little I used to believe that rain was invisible and that only certain people could see it. I thought I was so special and was upset when I told my mum I could see rain but didn't get much of a reaction lol

I used to believe that when the moon was out in the day that i was the otherside of the world

i thought clouds was candy floss and you can eat them

After playing halo, i began to think that the world was actually a huge megastructure, which explained iron deposits deep in the earth's crust. When i learned that things like iron and coal were made from compression of dead organisms, that thought collapsed on itself.

When I was really small, I saw hail in summer and was convinced it was snowing.


Also, I saw the moon in the morning once and for some reason became convinced it was trying to steal my breakfast!!

I used to believe that the little 'helicopters' that fall from the trees were dead tadpoles.

i was told once as a kid that if you point at stars you would get warts on your fingers. for years i never pointed at stars in fear that i would get warts all over my hands.

I used to believe that when there was thunder it was because God was moving furniture around his house and it was raining because God was moping and he dumped his dirty water outside of His house.

My neighborhood kids and I used to believe that to stop rain, all you had to do was put to knives crossed under a table and it wouldn't rain.