outer space

When my parents told me about the man on the moon I not only believed in him but actually thought I could see him and the craters I could see were what I reconned to be his face, They are a bit hazy and I sometimes thought I was getting him mad as it changed. I used to say mean things to the moon and decided I didn't like him.

opinionata

when i was like 9 or 10
my brother thought me some basic stuff about atoms and stuff like that.
so i found it very interesting that the way the electrons float around the proton-neutron core was the same way that the planets go around the sun, then i thought "hey, maybe the solar system is one big atom"

and i'm not kidding
gosh, i was so much smarter 8(

Yanko

There is a star cluster called the Hyadees (pronounced "HIGH-uh-deez"), which makes up the bull's face in the constellation of Taurus, the bull. My niece, Heidi, when she was a child, thought it was her very own star cluster, because "Hyades star cluster" sounds quite similar to "Heidi's star cluster'

Jeff

When I first tried to visualise the infinity of the universe my imagination insisted on a limit. My mind insisted on conjuring up an image of the universe contained in a vast cylinder of newspaper! Outside the newspaper was plain white light but I got dizzy when I tried to imagine where that went to.

Ian

Chemistry
When I was in first grade and told how HUGE the stars were and how far apart, I couldn't figure out how all that could get into my little eye.

A. J. Smith

One night when I was little, my Mom said "Oh, look at the full moon!" I asked "Are all the other moons hungry?"

Future Astonomer

When I was 4 I believe that the crickets "chirping" were the stars twinkling.

mel

When I was younger I used to believe that the moon was made of cheese. I used to want to be an astronaught so I could go to the moon and eat some moon-cheese. I never stopped to think that Wallice and Gromit's 'Grand Day Out' may not actually be true!!

Sophie Martin

I thought the moon was Alaska when I was little after seeing a documentary about the State and how cold and snowy it was all the time. I just couldn't figure out why it moved around so much.

Autumn

For a time as a child, I was totally convinced that I had been to a city on the planet Neptune. The clearest memory I had of the place was how at each end of the main street, atop a pole like a telephone pole, there was an array of horns, resembling loudspeakers like I'd seen at football stadiums. I wondered what those horns were for. I never heard any sound come from them.

Timothy

When I was about 7 year old, I used to believe that stars were actually made of glass and could break if meteor hit them. Then one night I found a piece of clear plastic just behind my home door, and I was absolutely sure that I had just found a piece of a star...The piece was included to my "treasure chest" for a long time but I lost it at some point.

minnamaarit

I thought there was a different moon in every country.

Anon

I use to believe that the sun and the moon were one object and just flipped around when day turned into night or night into day

Anon

I used to believe that the reason I always saw the moon outside at night when riding home in a car was because the moon was following us home. Stalker moon? Creepy much?

Chelsea

I used to believe that people could fly to the Moon! There was this TV show called 'Apollo' about flying there, well I thought it was real!? Even today there are lunatics on the web who have 'proven' that they can fly to the Moon. Luckily none of them take their beliefs seriously enough to try them in the real world or they would be in for a big surprise!

Carl Wilting

i used to think that the solar system was the only thing that mankind had seen, and that the universe "ended" with pluto

Anon

When I was about 3 or 4, I use to believe the sun and moon followed us while I was riding in the car.I though the "moon character" from the 1980's McDonalds commercial actually lived on the moon and I thought that's wear they were taping the commercial. I thought cars talked and had feelings...I played school w/ my toy cars,assigned them names and everything.

sallylue

When i was a little girl,I used to believe that people went skiing on the moon.It seemed to me that the moon was a perfect place for skiing,and I could even see the mountains covered in snow.Still,it never occured to me to even imagine how those people got there.Hm...I begin to wonder...

betty

I used to believe that there really was a man in the moon named Tigger and the stars were all his friends. I even used to smile and say goodnight to him through my window before I went to bed at night.

Anon

I thought that if I could ever travel into outer space, I would take a pair of pliers with me, to collect stars. Mommy did say they were too hot to touch.

Jeremy