outer space

When I learned that the universe never ended, I couldn't grasp the concept because I had been taught nothing lasts forever. So for years I imagine the universe suddenly ending by a big wall and then there was nothing but white on the other side.

Anon

I used to believe that the sky was a blue 'roof' on top of the world and that all you had to do was fly high enough and you could touch it.

I didn't think too hard about what happened at night, tho.

p-daddy

When i was a little girl i used to believe that God lives on the moon. if i got upset about something i go outside so we could look at each other and tell him about it... and i admit i still have that connection with the moon to this day. it does make me feel better looking at it.

Hanna

I knew a girl who thought the moon was just the sun at night. It burned during the day and went out at night.

John

In Thailand, I used to (probably still do) believe that if you point your finger at the Moon, it will come down at midnight and cut the bottom part of your ear.

Funny how I remember I also got cut once. Huh?

Yang

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