I used to believe that the lightning would come thru my bedroom window and strike me in my bed...for years I silently wished my bed wasn't right under the darn window !!!! I also thought if I hid under the blankets the lightning wouldn't be able to find me.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- I was told that if your ever swore in church, as you walked out God would strike you with a bolt of lightning.— Lou
- I used to believe that thunder happened when God was bowling. Lightning meant he made a strike!Anon
- I believed that lightning bugs were faeries....
::sigh:: I miss those enchanted years of my youth.— Andrea Sorenson - When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS