I used to believe that when I saw a brilliant beam of sun poking through the clouds, a person had just died and was going to heaven. I don't know how this belief started, but it was confirmed for me once: I saw one of these scenes while returning from a trip to my grandmother's house, and found out when we got home that our neighbor (whom we were close with) had died of cancer. Even now (age 25) when I see a sunbeam like this, I get a little nervous.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that where the sun peeks out from the clouds was where heaven was found.— Emily
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- i used to believe when you died you went to heaven and played sale of the century!!!!Anon
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- I used to think you could drive to heaven to visit your friends and relatives who had died before....— wombat