For the longest time I used to believe (kinda still do) that when people died in their sleep, they had that falling-from-the-sky dream and didn't wake up before they hit the ground.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.— Knoot
- I used to think that life was all a dream and one day i would wake up like a 75 year old woman.( who knows?)— 8 with wrinkles
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis