I used to believe that when you slept it was like you were temporarily dead and that your dreams were stuff that were happening to your soul when it was out of the body, in Heaven.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you slept with cats that they would eat your soul and you would die!!Anon
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon
- I used to believe the dead flew up to heaven.— Pierre, a French student in eighth grade
- I thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon