I used to believe that the people who were laying in coffins underground weren't really dead. That they were just laying there, staring up into the darkness of the coffin. Then I'd think "well, what do they do when they're bored?"
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!— jym
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- I used to believe that Automatic Toll Boths had underground room where people counted your money.— Dillon