When I was little, I used to think a dead person always looked the same way: eyes closed, tounge hanging out off to the side of their mouth.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- I used to believe that if I chewed on one side of my mouth too much the other side would get jealous.Anon
- I used to believe that if I closed one eye, the people on that side couldn't see me.— KM