I watched Heidi as a kid and she believed that when there was lightning you could see into heaven...so I was never scared and always looked...still do!
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon
- I believed that lightning bugs were faeries....
::sigh:: I miss those enchanted years of my youth.— Andrea Sorenson - When I was quite young, I believed that one's coffin was really a spaceship to take them to heaven.— Sunshine
- I used to believe electricity came from lightning.Anon
- I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn