I used to think that when you were sleeping you stoped breathing. Therefore when someone died they would soon wake up and live again.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- i thought that all of the shows on tv where played live even when someone died. sad, i no.Anon
- 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 when you fart, your tummy was breathing!— Nicholas Orsmond
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- I used to think when you smelled a fart, that you were breathing in tiny pieces of poop.— brandypandy