i thought my great nan had died by flying a kite near a plyon and getting it chaught and she climbed up to get it, but in fact she died of natural causes. i also had just leant about being eletricuted by pylons and it was a dream.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- 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
- I used to believe that when we died (and animals) died they were picked up in a bus with there name on it.— Lawny
- I used to believe everyone died when they turned 100, and they never died before or after.Anon
- when i saw R.I.P. on a tombstone I thought that was how they died— Brandon