I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I thought Clydesdale was a place dreamed up by a little boy named Clyde.Anon
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe as a child that t-storms (aka thunderstorms) where actually tea bags falling from the sky.— Samantha
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters