outer space

When I was little my oldest brother told me that if you whistled at the Northern Light they would come down and take you away.

J-Dawg

one of my best friends has several theorys...
-the world is flat.
-space is a conspiracy
-there are 3420000 other worlds with identical versions of ourselves on them.
she is only 14!

conspiracy_chick

From a very young age I believed that people 'worked' in stars.
I imagined a box, with windows and peddals to make it move about, with a man working inside.
This belief spawned from a picture book I used to have.

Matt T, UK

When I was young I used to believe that looking up at the moon will end up with the moon flying down to chop off my ears. That was what my parents & Gramma said to get me to fall asleep faster at night rather than wathing the beautiful moon through the window.

Alicia

I used to think, every time I saw the moon, that the sun was behind it and shining around and through it. I only realised when I was about 13 that if the sun was behind the moon the other half of the world wouldn't have any day time!

Willow

when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!

~kassie~

When I was younger I used to believe that spinning a globe is what caused the earth to spin. I was always very cautious not to let myself of anyone make it spin too fast- otherwise we'd all get dizzy and maybe fall off. I guess I had a lot of faith that no one else was spinning their globe too fast either!

Heather

I used to think that the moon had someone inside it, driving it. It's how I explained the fact that the moon moved along with the car as we drove.

Jeff

When i was litttle i used to believe that if a had a long enough ladder a could touch the sky.

Sarah Howell

I was born in 1967 and my Dad worked on the Saturn V so I remember hearing all about how man landed on the moon. For many years, when people would talk about seeing the "man in the moon" I would look really hard to see his silouette sticking off the side!

albeebe

I used to think that all the planets looked like what they were named after. Mars looked like a giant candy bar, Pluto was a cartoon dog, etc. Some were tough, like Saturn, (which I eventually figured out looked like a car). You can imagine what Uranus looked like...

Lara

When i was a little kid, i lived in Germany, and i always thought the moon as the other side of the Earth. Everyone would always talk about the US, and that's where i thought it was. Plus we learned about landing on the moon in school, and i really had no clear understanding of flying. Pretty stupid when i look back on it.

Anon

When i was little I truly believed that all things were alive.. the sun would go to bed in the evening and be tucked in by a big warm Sun mother. I then imagined the moon waking up, brushing its teeth and having breakfast before beginning the night. I was sure the moon was a nocturnal creature and was shocked when I first saw it in the daylight. From time to time I still look up and laugh out loud to myself.

Jessica

i used to belive for about half my life that there were three globes the way everyone used to say the third world

lola lady

i used to believe in the expression "once in a blue moon" and that there was really a blue moon that appeared random in the sky

-DM

I used to believe that the sky was another dimension and if you jumped high enough you would fall up forever. I also that since the moon was in the day as well it would have life and at night everything died.

Anon

My friend believed that when she looked at the moon, she would see Australia, because the moon was just the mirror image of the earth.

Scorp

When I was very young, about 3 years old I thought the sun and the moon were different sides of the same object. I guess I never noticed that sometimes they were in the sky at the same time.

Laura

When I was little and there was a full moon clearly visible, that the shaddows on the moon represented a lady and gentleman sitting having a meal at the dinner table.I thought that the taller person on the left looked like a king with a crown on his head and the shorter person on the right also wearing a crown, must be the queen. Even now when I see a full moon i still can see what I imagined as a child. I guess now that fairy tales and food must have featured largely in my life. They still do, as I like happy endings and a full stomach.

Gail

I thought that the Great Bear constellation was only visible from our town, and that was the reason why the symbol of our town was a saucepan. Actually, it was to do with the local tin plate industry, ... not quite as romantic !

Steve