Due to a father's brief history lesson one cold night, I firmly believed that the next Ice Age was going to happen overnight, with continent-sized glaciers at my door when I left for school one morning.
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When we were younger, my brother and i thought that thunder was when god was counting all of the sins that we from the last thunder storm. So, at every thunder storm, we would count the number of thunders there were, and we figured that was the amount of sins that we did.
I used to think that when the trees moved their branches it got windy outside.
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I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.
When i was little my daycare teacher told me that thunder was clouds bumping into each other. I believed that for a long time.
When I was two, my mom use to tell me to never drink the rain. She didn't tell me why so I thought it was angles peeing onto Earth. I believed this until I was 11.
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I used to believe that tornadoes were potatoes. Whenever there was a tornado warning I thought Mr. Potatoe head was walking around stomping on houses.
when i was younger i went to the beach once with my mother,i asked her where waves came from and she said that when whales wave their big fins, that creates the waves. And i beleived her for a long time!
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When I was young, I thought that the smoke that jets leave behind them was how clouds were formed.
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My brothers told me that the moon would become a crescent because the army was shooting at it. (we were army-brats)
I used to believe that the moon followed me home when we were in the car. My sister said it followed everyone home, but I didn't beleive her because there was only one moon so it had to be for me.
Rain was God taking a piss.
My mother firmly embedded in my head that when you hear thunder, it's actually God talking. I had no idea how she could understand Him and I couldn't.
When I was little, I was so freaked out be natural disasters that I absolutley could not go to sleep unless my mom told me everynight, "No earthquakes, no fires, no tornados, and nothing else bad will happen to not." I guess my Mom thought it was neat that I believed her saying that will make it happen.
I have always been interested in science, and I came up with my own theory of "gravity". I was only four, so I didn't know about gravity. But I assumed that since the world was round, people must live on the inside of the earth, and clouds were on the outside of it.
My Gran told me that Monkey Puzzle Trees were so called because monkesys climbed them, and couldn't get down again. To this day, I hate looking at this type of tree!
One day, a dandelion seed blew in my bedroom window, and when I tried to find where it had landed, I couldn't seeit. I thought it had gone under my blankets, and for a year or more after that, I used to curl my legs up in bed because I was afraid there were dandelions growing down the bottom of the bed.
When I was a little girl, I was afraid I could rip the clouds with my feet when I soared too high on the swings!
I used to believe that everytime it rain that Mrs. Cloud was crying b/c Mr. Cloud made her mad.
In Kindergarten, I thought that every fire drill, tornado drill, ect. was real. I always screamed and cried because I thought we'd all die, and I'd never get to see my grandparents again.