I used to believe that everyone had an invisible thread attached to the middle of their backs that came from a large ball of string that was kept in heaven. For some reason knowing this meant that whever I walked around anything - a building or a car or a room - I always walked back the opposite direction so that my string wouldnt snag on anything. It was only a small step from this to imagine that, when we died, Jesus would hold both ends of our string and, if it all pulled free without catching on anything, we would have earned ourselves a special place in heaven. Thankfully I now know this not to be strictly true.
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!— jym
- When i was little, I used to send Jesus birthday cards on christmas and thought he would read them in heaven.Anon
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie