outer space

I thought the full moon looked like a cookie, so I always called it the cookie moon.

Jennifer

I used to believe that the moon was relly made of cheese...

Krazy TACO

There are another world opposite the clouds and there may be creatures like human beings live.

Babui

I used to believe pluto was a planet.

Jen

i used to belive that i could land on the sun and not get burned at all lol

brother of two

my friend had a teacher who was convinced that the world really was flat, and for a while he had her convinced too! until she figured out that, logically, that can't really be true what with the orbits around the sun, and such

caroline

I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.

Daniel

that there really was a man on the moon at all times

Anon

I used to believe that the moon was the place where I was living and this planet was a reflection to it.

Albert

I used to believe that the moon landing was a fake...all because my mom had made a joke that I thought was real

Jennifer Camille

i used to think we were inside the earth then i thought how do rockets lift off and we cant be on the other side or we will float away then my mom told me the we are on the outside

Anon

As a rather precocious youngster, I had read in an illustrated astronomy book that in 4 billion years or so the Sun would red giant and swallow up the Earth. Since I didn't really understand how much time 4 billion years is, I thought this could happen any day. I had nightmares for months, and my mom didn't believe that that was the reason for them (not something normal kids have).

Alexia

I thought the patterns on a full moon were people up there at a table having dinner together

Suzan

I used to think that when the crickets chirped at night, it was the stars making that noise because when I looked at the stars, they neemed to flicker and it corresponded with the chirping of the crickets...sometimes when I listen to the crickets now, I still get the image in my mind of the starts glowing and flickering.

Angela

People told me that the Big Red Spot (storm) on Jupiter was big enough to fit 100 earths into it.

For years after I was scared that the earth would get sucked inside Jupiter.

Sarah

When I was in third grade, I read in a science book that someday the sun would become a nova. I must have figured "someday" was imminent because would I lay awake night after night wishing that the sun would not explode and incinerate the Earth. The sun seems to be holding together so far...

MaryK

I believed that when a star twinkled it was Jesus winking at me.

GoldenGem

I used to think the CareBears lived on the moon, and the blackish spots (actually craters) were where the CareALot cities were.

Anon

I used to believe that the stars are actually star-shaped (like a pentagram or the star of david), and they only seemed dotlike since they are so far away.

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