weather

When i was about 8 my neighbor told me that if you lifted your arms up from your sides and made them touch above your head and bring them back down multiple times it would make rain not fall where you were standing it had some magical power that would stop the rain from falling in your spot.

amber

When I was about 4 , I asked my mom why it rains and she told me that all these birds had to hold it in for a really long time and when it was decided , they all let off at the same time and it was the rain. I believed that for a good long time.

Monica

When I was younger I used to think that clouds were mado out of diamonds. My first time on a plane I tried very hard to figure out how to open the window, and was very disappointed when I couldn't. It was my get rich quick scheme. What made me think this? Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Makes sense doesn't it?

poor

Wind came from children who were being punished - they were forced to stand in a barn and an old man made them all blow in the same direction to make wind.

Jurgen

When I was little, I thought that clouds were made of a solid substance. I also thought that you could reach out of an airplane window with a jar in your hand, and scoop up some spongy, foamy clouds. I was DEVASTATED when I found out they were just glorified water.

Chartreuse

When I was very little I used to believe the reason it rained was because God would open up his freezer in heaven and ice would fall out and fall down the sky and by the time it reached earth it was melted and turned into water (rain).

Rain

I used to think that snow was rain still in the bag.

Robert

When the weather was bad outside, I used to copy what I thought my dad was saying, and say "let's go out and brave the elephants", instead of elements.

Woody

When I was about 5 or 6 and even later, I used watch the clouds during a mild windy day, believing that they were trasforming into creatures of different shapes and forms for the purpose of having a party. I thought they were talking to each other and I wished so much to know what they say! So silly!

Roxana

I used to believe that clouds were foreign countries.

Ade

I use to believe that if the clouds were gray it was because they were filled with dirt and then the rain came to rinse them off and they'd be white again.

Anon

Because of my sister, I believe that when there was a ring around the moon, aliens would come the next day and abduct someone. I told this to my friends because I honestly had no idea and ended up scaring them silly.

Anon

When I was 6, my family moved from New York City to the suburbs in Florida. In NYC the sky is usually gray or smoggy so it was the first time I had seen blue skies and clouds. I used to try to lay in the grass and look for shapes in the clouds but I never could stay long enough to find anything because I was absolutely terrified that the clouds would fall on me. I was still uneasy even after I learned that clouds are weightless water vapor.

Jenny D

My boyfriend used to think that it couldn't be windy unless it was cloudy- because of all the kids books where the clouds have little faces and are blowing leaves off trees etc.!

Ellie

When my mom would tell my it was raining cats and dogs, I thought I would need to put all my cats and dogs in a cage so they would not fall from the sky!

Ellie M.

I used to believe that, when it rained in my city, it rained all over the world. It took me a couple years (of young childhood, like, before grade school) and of watching the weather channel on TV as punishment, lol) to figure out that it rained in different areas at different times. Of course, I rarely see someone that was as dumb as I was back in those days.

Cammy

When I was little, I used to believe... When the sky turned pink, the "lady" clouds were putting on makeup and the "boy" clouds were getting ready. The pink in the sky was created by the pink blush that the lady clouds were putting on. They were getting ready to go to the ball.

Kelly

THE BIG CLOUD
When I was a child of about 8, every afternoon during the Easter holidays I used to go the river bed to play with my brothers and sisters, my mum, my uncle and my cousins. One day I saw a single large, white cloud in the sky and suddenly it started to rain. I had a brilliant idea, ' Let's run to the end of the cloud so it will stop raining!', and my brothers and cousins started to run; but my uncle shouted, 'What are you doing? The end could be in the next town!' We stopped; we could never run that far!

Inma Ruiz

I use to think that snow was oreo cookie filling. When the snow melted I thought The oreo workers (my name for them) would collect the cream

Shelly

I had a charming meteorological theory when I was young.

Drizzle - God's spit
Snow - God's dandruff
Rain - God, er, relieving himself.

St Sauverais