i was 5 when my folks brought me to my first funeral. we went to the wake the night before as well. i thought they called it an "awake" which i thought was pretty rude considering the person was dead and couldnt wake up.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos