When I was 3, I used to think that when people were sleeping that they were temporarily dead. So whenever my mom, dad or sister took naps or fell asleep before I did, I'd run outside to find any sort of flower looking plant and place them on the bodies. Also when they woke up, I'd ask them what they dreamed about because I thought dreams were the mind's interpretation of Heaven or Hell. I have no idea how these thoughts came to be, but I did this until I went to kindergarten.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- I thought Clydesdale was a place dreamed up by a little boy named Clyde.Anon
- when i was younger i thought that areoplanes drove dead people to heavenAnon
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- when there is a spot where the sun only shines between 2 clowds god was takeing dead people up to heaven.— manda
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie