Whenever I woke up from a nightmare I thought someone was coming up the stairs to see if I was alright. The steps would be slower and quieter, then fade away. It took me years to realize that the sound was my heart pounding.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that echos were actually the sound going completely around the world and coming back to you.— kyle
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was actually coming from the twinkle of the stars.— Lily Fagioli
- when i was little, i used to believe that a Hawaiian tan would never fade away.— Joan
- The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass". — oops
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- I used to think that if you eat pig heart, you could grow another heart and be twice as healthier. Anon