outer space

When i was a child my parents told me that earth is spinning around itself.I was confused, why cant we notice that if it spinns?Then one day i was playing one game where i spinn around like 15 times, and i got dizzy, everything around me started spinning, i was thrilled to find out my secret way to see that earth is really spinning.Silly me!!Now you know it too!!! ;)

marija

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.

ibid

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

Daniel

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

i used to believe that the moon really WAS made out of cheese. i really did.

krazy taco

I used to think that Skyscrapers were what made those white streaks in the sky. I never actually saw one launch, though (for OBVIOUS reasons.)

JRE1

In Mexico, the words "rocket" and "fireworks" can be used as synonymous. So, I USED to believe that fireworks could take us to the outer space and in traditional holidays, (where is common use fireworks), I didn't want to go out to celebrate because I was afraid that these "fireworks" take me to outer space and I wouldn't back to my home.

Talia

When I was about 5, I convinced myself that when I looked up at the sky, I could see the world turning. I think my mother burst my bubble by telling me that what I was seeing was the clouds moving across the sky.

Anon

When I was little i used to believe that shooting stars, could just come down to Earth and kill you, that's why i always refused to watch shooting stars when my family went up to the mountains.

Kelly Grace

I had a huge discussion in 2nd grade standing at the globe. The other person said we live on the outside of the globe. Duh- we live on the inside! Besides if we lived on the outside how would we not just fall off into space?!!

Sayanna

When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved

Anaïs

When I was a child I used to believe that on the star that shone brightest in the constellation was the Neverland Island of the lost children of Peter Pan.

Maria del Pino

I used to think that the moon was fastened with something so it wouldn't fall

Kelvin

I have no idea if I formed this meme myself or some unknown person gave it to me. I thought that the "man in the moon" face was "deciphered" (ie. the craters' pattern was called a face) after Neil Armstrong fell in one of the moon craters and couldn't get out, and the rest of the astronauts had to come back to Earth without him, and so they called it a face posthumously in his honour.

"Culex"

When I was a child I believed that the atmosphere was really a dome with a handle on it that could be lifted off at any moment. I would lie on the grass, look up into the sky, and wonder if God would see me looking up at him when he lifted the dome off the Earth.

Cathy

i thought that the sun was using batteries,and every time the sun was gone( at night)i thought Jesus changed the batteries..i think i was about 3-4 years old

missnorway

My daughter (who is currently 5) believes that when the moon is in anything other than in it's full stage that someone broke the moon

Anon

When I was a child I used to believe that stars were holes in the sky & we could see heaven shining through

June

my family and I were vacationing at the beach, and we were fishing pretty late into the day. I remember looking up and asking my mom how they got all those streetlights into the sky (stars).

David

When I was little I believed that every night my Grandpa would get out a ladder and hang the moon. There was a moon mobile in a mall near my house and I thought he put that up too, but not everyday.

Anon