I thought that once you'd die you'd go to heaven if you were good and hell if you were bad, of course, but I thought that if you were an awesomely good person God would let you come back as and animal and help people(discreetly). So I thought my cat was a person brought back to life since she was such a good cat.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I thought that a person's motorskills meant how good they were at driving!Anon
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- When I first saw "brb" on an im I thought the person burped, not that they would be right back.Anon
- I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- when I was a little boy I thought i would become zidane but i was not as good as him— elbouteman10
- As an artist, i used to believe that my drawings were visions of my past life.(i had a good past life)— Blind dreamer