When I was young (okay I still believe it when I'm a little tired) I believed that you could die without realizing it. When a car zoomed by quickly I would wonder if I had been run over and had not yet realized I was dead.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that snow on the ground was clouds that were too tired to fly.— alex