I used to think when you slept, you would really be dead for a short period of time, then your heart would start working again.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believed that when I went to sleep my heart took a rest too, and didn't pump at all while I slept.— Lara
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- 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