when i was about 5-9 i used to think that life wasnt real and that we humans were just acting out a story that some alien mom was reading to her kid, and then when we went to sleep, she stopped reading for a little bit, and if anyone found out, thats why they died.
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- When I was about 5, I thought that English was the reverse reading of Turkish.— sel
- I used to wonder when reading the obituary column how people always managed to die in alphabetical order.— diane
- I used to believe people really died in movies. I didnt understand they were just acting.— Justin