I used to think that whenever you saw those "sunbeams"..those breaks between the cloud when you see the actual beam go all the way down to the earth, I used to think those were the angels pathways, and if u stood in them long enough and believed--like when they came in through the window...u could try to get 'beamed up'-to heaven.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- i used to think stigmata meant the really clear, white sunbeams that you could see reaching down to the earth.— lora
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- I used to think that the fog was a cloud that had died and fallen to the earth.— Cici
- that when it thunder'd it was angels rolling barrels around heaven.— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- My older sister used to beleive that when it rained, the angels in heaven were having a spitting contest— Doblica W.
- I used to believe that if you poked a cloud with a really long stick rain would come out.Anon