I thought dead ment you would be buried 500 feet under the sand, I didn't know it meant you weren't alive.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie