When I was a child of 3, I believed that when the tide went out it was because someone had pulled out the plug.
I thought the waves on the sea were like the pleats of a skirt and that if you unfolded them the sea would cover the land.
I knew that the ghost of an old lady lived in the cupboard in my bedroom and that if you didn't want her to come out you must never cry.
By the time I was 10 I had dismissed these ideas and others like them as ridiculous. Now I am not so certain. 
