outer space

When I was little I thought the moon was made of cheese. One of my dreams was to eat it whole without leaving any pieces. Another dream is related to cooking, I wanted to open a restaurant on the moon and I thought a lot of aliens would come to eat.

Anon

I used to think that the stars change their size because every day born one

Mariela

I used to dig a super deep hole thinking it
would transport me to the galaxy

Rafaella

I used to believe the banded sunset sky was the atmosphere of Jupiter! When I was 6 I studied the planets and I knew that Jupiter had pretty colored bands of clouds and that it was REALLY BIG. So when we occasionally got beautiful banded sunsets, I thought I was seeing the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Glenn Nelson (formerly from LI, NY, USA)

I used to believe that the full moon was God's flashlight.

Anon

When I was a little girl, I used to believe that the moon was a rabbit eating cheese that would observe the little kids from the sky.

Eli

When I was a child I used to believe that people lived on the moon because my mother told me a lot of stories about people living on the moon。

junbo zhu

At the time I thought the moon was made of cheese and with oceans of cheese

123

When I was about 3, my parents took me to a museum. There was a display that consisted of a small alcove with a large model of the Moon suspended in it. The walls of the alcove were pitch-black and dotted with stars. Dad asked me if I wanted to touch the Moon and feel the craters. I was really excited, until he lifted me over the railing so I could reach the model. I looked down and saw more blackness and stars, and concluded that I was being dangled over empty space. I freaked out, pleading with Dad to not drop me into outer space!

Nicholas Dollak

When i was about 7. I thought that after space was a giant wall of bricks and lots of millitary guarding it. So i spent loads of days wondering what is behind this wall? My answer was: Heaven.

Anon

I thought the moon was evil and it's rays would try to kill me every night. So of course I outsmarted it by blocking the moonlight every day with my curtains. But the moon would begin to eat away at the curtains and reach me so I made sure I was properly covered. By the time the moonlight reached me, it would be morning and the sun would save me.

Kathy

My dad used to believe that God put a blanket over the world at night. The stars are holes in the blanket. I love this image!

Claire

When I was little, I used to believe that if you see a star pass through the sky you have to make a wish.

Luis

My grandmother would take me on walks on warm, summer evenings. I would
hear these noises (which I found out later were crickets) and asked my
grandmother what they were. She told me "That's the sound the stars
make when they twinkle." To this day I think of her every time I hear
the summer crickets.

Sally Mansis

"The stars that you see in the night sky are actually stars from the age of the dinosaurs, because the light is taking so long to reach the earth." I heard this when i was about six years old (on a tv show about supernovas probably), and i was very disturbed that our picture of the sky was so out of date. I had a sneaking suspicion that we were missing out on a lot of good explosions, and was firm in my convictions that if the outer universe was to explode we wouldn't know until we were extinct. i was a philosophical little girl even then.

krashkrash

when i was little i thought that the moon was another earth. and i couldn't understand why i could see it in the middle of the day. cauz i figured when it got dark earth went away so we could see it in the sky (but it was really the moon)

Jackie

I used to think that the moon was the sun when it was sad. So, whenever night came, I would feel bad for the moon, because I thought it was sad or scared!

Kelsey

I used to beleive that the moon was made of cheese. Wallace and Gromit had a big influence on me. (:

Sarah

When I was in fourth grade, I figured out the question that has puzzled scientists and theologists for centuries: I realized that the universe was a large shoebox under the Mr. Rogers' bed. I would have called a press conference to explain my revelation, but after I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out how I had arrived at that conclusion.

Virginia W.

when i was in kindergarten i thought that balck holes formed from people shooting guns in space.

wacko zacho