In my church, if you looked up at the lights for a while you would start to see weird shadows once your eyes became dazed by the lights. I was convinced these were the people of the afterlife and they were trying to contact my seven year old mind
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could change street lights with my mindAnon
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I used to believe the shadows on the moon were actually spacemen casting shadows on the ground.— Perry
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon