When I was about 4 or 5,my grandmother died, and my mom "explained" to me that dying is like sleeping, you jus never wake up...well I was so scared, I would refuse to sleep for like a week...
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- 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 was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- 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 young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon