outer space

I thought there were ten planets, with the sun as the first planet, Mercury as the second planet, and so on up to Pluto as the tenth planet. This was because I had a picture dictionary where one of the pages was of the solar system, and it listed the sun first, and then the nine planets. (This was before Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet.)

Anon

When I was little I had a hard time holding on to my balloons, so they would always fly away. After a while I came to believe that there must be a planet full of my balloons that had gotten carried off into space, since i had lost so many.

June

When I was little I used to think of the night sky as a BIG blanket and the moon and stars where holes in the blanket and if you looked real close through the holes they called stars you could see shadowy figures going by.

wisper26

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

Anon

Every night, to explain the darkness, I thought someone put the world in a box.

All the stars were air holes.

Anon

When my mum taught me about comets, I thought she said "commas" and so I thought there were flaming punctuation marks in the sky.

Anon

When I was little and the news would talk about "illegal aliens" I thought they seriously meant aliens from outer space! I thought Omigod! Not only are they aliens but they are illegal!

Stevie

I used to believe that if you counted all the stars in the sky, a shooting star would appear and place itself somewhere in my honour just because I had accomplished the task of counting every star in the sky.

Emilia Farrace

I use to believe that the Sun and the Moon were the same thing - with the Sun on one side and the Moon on the other.

Chris

I used to think that we lived in the center of the earth, and the blue sky was actually a protective covering with a light outside it so we could all see. Don't ask.

Emily

When i was kid,I listened from people that hell is to hot and it has a fire to burn bad people,Then i assumed that Sun is hell because it is to hot and it has fire in it as well.

Syed Arbab Ahmed from Karachi ,Pakistan

I used to think that planet earth was the only thing that existed in the universe

Santiago

I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.

Geoff

When I was a little girl I used to get very excited at dusk. The reason for this was that the stars started to come out and begin to "twinkle". It was only until I was older that I realised the "twinkling" sound I thought the stars were making was actually the sounds of crickets in our garden.

Toni

I used to believe that if you saw the first star of the night and said "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" your wish would be granted. I thought you could trick it too, pretend that you only saw one star even if you'd seen more.

Lindsay

One of the weirder things I genuinely believed in was a physical border between the world of the imagination and the world of the 'real'. This border was a sharp division (like the equator or something) which sat on the very outmost edge of the universe and represented a border which mankind could never cross.

I used to believe if you could build a spaceship with a warp drive, a person could jump to the border between the two realities and put their hand through the curtain, to the other side. Everything that existed in 'unreality' lay on the other side... with effort you could bring people and objects back through the curtain - (they were unable to cross through on their own free will)- things like the animated Transformers on TV, or the imaginary heroes from books that only existed in your mind.

Later on this would evolve into my working definition of the afterlife for many years.

Mark

I used to believe outer space scenery, with black background and shining stars is because there is "night" in space, and there's always "night" in space just because it lasts way more time that night on Earth, and after few hundred years then comes a "space day", when planets hover among clouds with blue sky in background. I also believed every planet hover incredibly high over "space ground" which exists in the bottom of universe and stretches into infinity in every direction, and if you fell off the spaceship, you would be falling down until you'd hit the bottom, which looks like giant desert.

Pan Kleks w kosmosie

I used to believe that the man on the moon was the Quaker Oats man!

Kristen

In childhood I used to belive that we, all human live inside the earth. There is giant hole on the top of the earth and we see the stars through that hole. I used to believe that all the Rockets to Moon had to pass through that hole to go to Moon.

Jabed

I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world.

Anon