I used to think the earth was flat.
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I used to think that the smoke coming from the factories were actually making clouds
i used to believe i could control wind by fighting it to kill it lol yea i must of looked like a real dork at school
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When my daughter was in kindergarten, one of her little classmates pointed out the berries on a juniper bush and informed us, "Those are caterpillar eggs."
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during great stroms grandma always told me that thounder is when st.peter is rolling winebarrels to the gates of heaven.the only thing that puzzled me was that i thought alcohol was a banned thing..
My dad works at a paper mill, so they have a giant steam-stack. Up until I was about 5 or 6, I thought that the steam-stack made clouds, because they looked like it. I was so dumb.
i was convinced that evergreen trees were maple trees and i wouldn't go near them because I saw an evil looking one in Snow White.
When I was little I was scared of spider plants, cause I thought they had spiders in them. And actually . . . they often do! =P
i used to get scared during thunder storms when i was little because for some reason i thought the noise was really giants playing bowling down the driveway
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i used to believe that the moon was the sun flipped over!!
We went on a family vacation once to Colorado and I can remember telling my Mom as we were going up a mountain that my ears were getting dirty because I couldn't hear.
I used to believe that at night, the dark clouds in the sky were actually monsters out to get me, causing much hiding behind the curtains.
Life was v difficult, considering I live in Manchester, England- where a clear sky is a rare occurence....
when i was 5 or so i used to beleive the weather had something to do with where god was living such as thunder was when he moved his furniature rain was when he pulled the plug after a bath and lightning was him flicking the lights on and off
Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.
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Somehow I used to believe that this whole world is inside an Elephant's stomach and we live inside it too :). Nuts naa.
i used to believe that all rivers and seas etc were filled up by giant taps in the morning and at night someone would come and pull the plug out so they could be filled up fresh again in the morning! one yr we went to the seaside and i stepped into the freezing sea and shouted "they should have run some warm water shouldnt they?" to my parents. they have NEVER let me forget this.
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I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun, because whenever I looked at it, I would sneeze.
My grandfather told me that the foam at the edge of the ocean would suck you in if you got too close. Said a little boy was grabbed before his mom could reach him and was never found again. I believed it for the longest time and refused to go near the foam.
When I was young, I used to think that windmills in fields started the wind.
I used to think that countries were planets