outer space

For the longest time I believed that black holes were giant people who like toothpaste, and if you used their favorite flavor- bubble gum- then they would come to get you and destroy the Earth in the process. I still can't stand the smell of bubble gum toothpaste.

JoJo

When I was little, I used to think that the nine planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, etc., were all located inside the "world", which looked like our globe. So North America was "Earth", and each of the other continents was also a planet. It never occurred to me that there weren't nine continents. And I thought "space" was the area between the planets inside the world, and outside the world was "outer space." It wasn't untill later that I figured out that Earth and the World were the same thing.

Evilrabbit

When I was small, the family had a party and being a young child I played up. My Uncle took me to the patio doors and told me to look up at the moon. He told me that if I made lots of noise the moon would hid. So I stood quiet for the rest of the night (and several nights after that) scared that the moon would disappear.
Can't wait to use this on my kids!

Rob

When I was quite young I used to believe that stars really had five points, and that a falling star could fall out of the sky and stab me. I was terrified of going outside at night for fear of being impaled by such a star.

David

I used to believe the shadows on the moon were actually spacemen casting shadows on the ground.

Perry

The moon was actually either a sugar cookie or a banana, depending on the time of the month.

Jessica Aspra

When I was a child I firmly believed that humans had visited every planet in the solar system except Jupiter. I was so disappointed and disgusted to learn in school that we hadn't even reached the moon yet!

Lark

When I was little I was told that the world was round so I believed that but I couldn't figure out how it was also flat. I ended up with my own theory that we lived encased in a huge glass globe with a flat plane on the inside, that's what our houses sat on on and what we walked on. Then someone told me that the sun is bigger than the earth, but that made no sense to me because I figured there's no way the sun could fit inside the glass globe.

Deborah Warren

My grandfather once explained to me that the sun is a giant ball of fire hanging in space. Well, I could picture that easily enough, but I had to wonder what the other end of the sun's string was tied to...

K.H.

I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!

Anon

I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell

Alan

I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!

I don't know why you get chopped...

Once, when looking at a sharp crescent moon, my mom pointed at it said "Look, the Cheshire Cat!"

Of course I know better, but I STILL imagine the crescent moon being the Cheshire Cat's smile!

Scary Dream

I used to believe that when my parents talked about 'watching the ball drop' on New Year's Eve that everyone watched the moon fall from the sky. I didn't know it had anything to do with Dick Clark and Times Square!!

Carrie

I used to think that if you went to the bottom of the Earth (the south pole), you would fall off into space and float around there.

Sasha

I used to believe, when I was like five, that space had a bottom. I thought that the north pole was the only safe place to live, because it was facing up. I had no idea of gravity.

Anon

When I was about 5, my brother told me that clouds didn't move. They just looked like they were moving because the Earth was rotating.

Anon

i used to believe that you could see 2 suns from somewhere on earth

bramblepicker

I used to believe, when we drove home at night that when you could see the moon, he was following us home and even once I thought he winked at me.

JLK Aq

I used to believe that humans beings lived on every single planet of the solar system. When I found out we live on earth only I thought 'oh the universe isn't large at all!'

Mudguts