I used to think that in the middle of the night you died and in the morning you came back to life.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey
- I used to believe that when you had a cousin twice-removed, they had died and came back to life twice.— Amanda
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- 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