I used to believe that "dead" batteries were once alive, and so when my parents would try to throw them away, I would cry and insist that they get a proper funeral.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- I used to think that putting batteries in your ears could electrocute your brain. Hahahaha.Anon
- My parents told me that Jesus visited Santa Claus when he was dead for three days. — Rick Hamell