outer space

When I looked outside and I saw how the moon would change from one day to weeks later, I thought it was from "smurfs", or little blue alien people eating the moon because I thought it was made of cheese. The less of the moon was showing, the more the "smurfs" ate. And when it was a new moon, the "smurfs" would eat all of it and slowly the moon cheese would grow back to a full moon, and that's when the "smurfs" would start eating it again.

Alea

At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!

delana

when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that

sparrow

I always thought the sound of the crickets chirping at night was the sound of the stars twinkling. I thought a “twinkle” was a sound. In my mind I imagined the stars kind of flickering while they made the noise.

Karen

I used to beleive that the moon was where the local fair was.

tah

I used to believe that we lived inside of the Earth, not on its outside surface. I always wanted to feel the inside edge.

Marcus

I used to believe that comets were pieces of the Sun that had broken off.

Carmen

I believed many of those sparkling things in the sky were satellites. Every company, every satellite tv, radio, and telephone company had at least a dozen of them. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I learned in a college astronomy class that satellites are extremely hard to see. ... During a lab outdoors at night I pointed out to my professor (who happened to work for Nasa in his free time) what I though was a satellite. He informed me it was a star. I then proceeded to ask why it was flashing red, white, and blue then (because, American satellites flash lights that we can see, right?). He very flatly said "it's twinkling."

DumbDumb

I used to believe that the sun was following me

-yacine-91-

I used to believe each country was a planet

nana91

I used to think stars were the persons in the sky

ceci91