In parochial school we were always told that the soul was physically part of you, was inside of you, and when you died the soul left your body and flew off to heaven. Well then: part of you, inside of you. . . . A soul must be one of your inner organs! I used to picture heaven to be lots of clouds with little kidneys in sneakers and wings, playing harps. When I think about souls today, that's still the first picture I get.
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- I used to believe that the rays of sun coming through clouds were how God led newly dead souls into heaven.— Jenni
- I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon