water

I used to look for raisins in the ocean when mum told me to be careful of the currents

Karina

When I was little, my dad told me that everytime it rain it was because God was mad at me and that he was spitting me for being bad...used to cry every single time it rained

Nicole

Waves are whales and sharks moving up and down under the water

Anon

When I was young, I believed everything my older sister told me. SO, when we visited Niagara Falls when I was 8 years old, I asked her if the falls ran all night. She told me they turned them off at midnight. And I believed her.

Jenn

I used to believe that dew on the grass in the morning was created by all the birds flying over all the grass in the world at night and peeing on the grass. Well...they did name it "dew"!

Jordan

i had just been taught about the water cycle and i used to believe that when it rained it had fish wee in it from the nearby river, raining fish wee ugh

Anon

I used to believe that wells fill up by the rain drops falling from the sky.

I also thought that why it rains mostly at weekends is because there are so many people washing clothes in the weekend and while the clothes are on the clothesline the water evaporates to the sky and when the clouds are full of water, it rains.

Bhadra

I used to belief the sea water is taste solty because there was a ship sunk in to the sea with a nonstop solt producing machine.

S.D.Ajanthan

I used to believe that hot water was red and cold water was blue.

Anon

I remember while brushing my teeth my mother telling me we had well water in which I believed that an acutual whale was swimming in the water that we used.

lala

when I was around 5/6 I didn't know what a drought was back in the 70's so I thought if I took a cup of water outside and poured it into the street gutter that it would find a stream somewhere and add to that to fill up the other streams which led to rivers,ponds,lakes,etc... and finally end up in the ocean.Uh... nope..My mom wondered back then what on earth I was doing making sporadic trips with a cup of water. Then she told me the truth. Man I must of made about 3 dozen trips every so often thinking I was ''helping'' !!

Stacie B.

I used to beleive that I wasn't allowed to go swimming at certain areas on the beach because if I went in the water the "UNDERTOAD" would get me. I imagined a giant people-eating toad just below the surface just waiting to inhale me and a huge gulp of water if I dared to swim.

I was much older before I realized it was the under-tow (under water tidal currents which are dangerous because they can pull swimmimg people out into the ocean).

Ellie

I used to think from the age of about 5 to 8 that the only reason the sea was ther was because someone had turned on a tap at their house n filled up lots n lots of buckets of water and emptied them in2 a big dip in the ground until the it was full because they didnt ave anything betta 2 do considerin tv hadnt been invented

Hannah

When I was probably 4, one of my dad's co-wrokers told me there were fish in the lake that liked biting toes Well later on some of my parents friends had said how a fish had deflated their pontoon by biting it. I didn't go near the water for a long long time.... to this day I can't be in a lake by myself!!

fish'll eat me!

I used to think that when you went over a bridge there were two different rivers and the bridge separated them.

Josh

I grew up right by the ocean, but refused to learn to swim because the water was green. My logic was as follows:

Water is blue.
Wee is yellow.
Blue + yellow = green.

I was convinced the ocean was green from all the people weeing in it!

Meg

when I was young, I used to believe that if I jumped into a deep puddle, I would jump all the way down to Australia...I think it was mum's way of deterring me from jumping in the puddles in the first place :D

Anon

when i was little,my dad would bring me to his house on the weekend.One weekend at 2:00, and the next weekend at 6:00.Anyway my dad made me believe that he could control the tides of the ocean because on certain weekends the water was low and on the other weekends the water was high.

Ryan D.