I was very young when, having no realistic concept of the biological implications of actual 'life' and 'death', I believed that when a person was awake s/he was 'alive' and when asleep was 'dead'. The up-side to this was that death was not frightening because I knew that I would ALWAYS wake up!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to believe that my Barbie's would come to life while I was asleep to plot my death!— Kimbre
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- I once believed that if I wore my Halloween costume to bed, I'd wake up as the actual thing.— Sarah
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon