landscape

I thought that desert islands, and indeed any island, just floated on the surface of the sea without moving. In other words it just bobbed there, rather than being connected to the sea bed in any way.

Katie

When I was about 4 I used to say that touching the sky is easy just standing a ladder on top of a mountain and then you can touch it easily by your hands.
Haseeb

Haseeb

I would always ask my parents where the edge of the world was, and they would tell me it was round. I would reply "I know, but where's the edge???". They couldn't understand. I believed that the sky above made up the top half of the sphere, the ground was the bottom half, and we lived at the ground level in the middle of the sphere.

Elisa

When I was little like 6, I use to think a monster sallowed the world and the moon was his mouth so at random time I would yell let me out!

Megan

The earth is round,and when i was small i thought the earth was flat.

George Dahdal

We went on a family vacation once to Colorado and I can remember telling my Mom as we were going up a mountain that my ears were getting dirty because I couldn't hear.

Wade

When I was younger, I used to believe that islands floated in the sea.

Marie

I used to believe that we lived INSIDE the earth, and that if you traveled far enough, you'd eventually get to the shell. I always wanted to get to the edge and lean up against a big wall of sky!

Amanda

When I was a kid riding the bus into school, I used to think that the hills (especially the humps on hills) were dinasaurs that were buried and they were just waitingto burst out and stomp around.

Nick

i used to believe the roaring sound that a motorcyle makes was actually the sky rumbling and i also believed that the sound the crikets or locust make was actually the sound the sun makes when its getting hotter (LOL)

Anon

I thought that we were all INSIDE the Earth and not ON it. The reason: in maps of the solar system, Earth was always blue, and since the sky is blue and it is a big dome (from our view on Earth), this theory made perfect sense to me.

Mike, Sarasota

I used to believe that the world was flat because the roads are also flat.

Anamarija

I used to believe that whenever you made a dent in the ground, it pushed the earth up on the other side of the planet.

Ray

When I was learing briefly about plate techtonics and they siade "Under the ground the Earth moves" so I thought that the dead people under the ground would be split up into teeny tiny pieces and shifted underground.

Corinne

I grew up just North of New York City where we obviously had no farms or livestock. We had relatives in Kansas, and every summer we would visit. Driving along the plains and prairie there is not too much to see, except the occasional windmill rising up from the endless rolling fields.

Not knowing why a farmer would place giant "fans" in the middle of his property, I assumed that this was to blow the smell of the cows away whenever the farmer was working in the field.

City Kid

When my mom was little she saw an oil rig next to a K-mart. She asked what it was and my grandma thought she was talking about the store, so she told my mom that it was a K-mart. It wasn't until years later that she figured out it was an oil rig.

Anon

When I saw shadows of clouds on a tree-covered mountain, I thought the trees were a different color in that area, and the dark trees could move around.

blest2x

I used to believe that the rolling hills in Northern California were actually dead dinosaurs, covered in grass.

Lindsay

When my brother was little, (five or six) he asked our mother if he planted a rock, would he be able to grow a mountain.

Big sister