When I was about four or five, I think, I used to think that people were buried with their heads sticking up out of the ground. This never bothered me...
...Until the day I remember it raining very hard and I got very worried. I told my mother that I was worried for all the dead people and she asked why and I told her I was afraid they'd drown. <smile>
She asked me why I thought that the dead people were buried with their heads above ground.
"So that they can talk to people," I said.
My mother was shocked. "Talk to people? But honey, they're dead."
"But why else would so many people go visit their relatives at the cemetary?" I asked her.
To this day, I smile whenever I see people visiting gravesites. Their loved one may not be talking to them, but the memories are.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to believe that the way you knew when people were dead was when their toungue was sticking out. — Geneva
- When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved— Anaïs
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina