When I was a child I firmly believed that humans had visited every planet in the solar system except Jupiter. I was so disappointed and disgusted to learn in school that we hadn't even reached the moon yet!
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Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.
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the curly parts of grape vines were magical
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When I was about 5 or 6 I asked my mom why was the sky blue, she told me it was because the sea would reflect on it, I belived it until I was like 11!
I used to believe that every cloud was a different country
I used to believe that the world was flat because the roads are also flat.
One night when I was about 7 I woke up around 3 in the morning. I couldn't get back to sleep so I decided to read a Richie Rich comic book, and the main story concerned a bunch of bad guys who stole the moon (of course they didn't; they just turned it invisible, and Richie figured it out). I remembered that there was a full moon that night so I went to look at it out my window, which faced East, and... IT WAS GONE! Not knowing that both the Earth and Moon would be spinning/revolving enough to get over on the other side of the house in the 5 hours since I had last seen it, I went into my parents' room and woke Mom up to let her know that someone had stolen the Moon or turned it invisible. She groggily assured me it hadn't and told me to go to bed.
Fortunately, I was wrong.
Once when i was little there was a thunderstorm and i asked my parents where it came from. They said it came from iowa. I thought there was this person called Mr. Iowa who made all the bad weather and i went and asked him to stop it.
When I was 4 my brother and I used the garden hose for hours, spraying the sidewalk, trees, etc. My dad got mad at us for wasting water and since storm clouds were gathering, for some reason he told us that we had "made it rain." Until age 10 I firmly believed that spraying the water into the air had caused the clouds to form and caused the resultant rain, and I didn't completely let go of this belief until about age 15.
The clouds were really the images, animals and people I imagined them to be
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As a child I use to think that factory that billowed white smoke were making clouds.
I always wanted to play in the lawn sprinkler when I was little, but my mom knew I would track mud and water into her clean house. So she told me grass is very sensitive when it is wet and if you walk on it you will bruise it and kill it. For years I carefully stuck to the sidewalks after every rain, and chided people who walked on wet lawns.
Long after I learned that in NATURAL streams water always flows downhill and never uphill, I still thought that when I saw artificial drainage ditches alongside roads, the water in them would flow the same direction all along a given road. So anytime a road went alternately uphill and down, I thought water in the ditches alongside had to somehow flow uphill part of the time to maintain its flow parallel to the road.
I used to believe that if you stood on top of a snowbank for long enough, you'd sink down right into the ground!
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I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.
As a child, after the storm passed, I noticed the water puddles contain colorful oil slicks swirling around. I thought that were dead rainbows. I tried to rescue them with a twig but it was too late.
I would always ask my mother what she was doing, even though I could totally see what she was doing. She'd answer me with "Milking a coconut" I thought for years that you got coconut milk by milking them like cows. I always wondered where the udders would have been though.
I used to believe that whenever you made a dent in the ground, it pushed the earth up on the other side of the planet.
When I was learing briefly about plate techtonics and they siade "Under the ground the Earth moves" so I thought that the dead people under the ground would be split up into teeny tiny pieces and shifted underground.
I used to believe that if you dug under ground a little bit that you would see space