When I was younger, the prayer that goes "and if I die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to take" used to terrify me. Every night I'd be afraid of dying in my sleep, so I'd never say that part of the prayer. Eventually I realized that if I slept with my hand in front of my nose and mouth, I would be able to feel it when I stopped breathing and would wake up in time to stop myself from dying.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in the Christian Prayer of the Faithful, we were responding, "Lord, harrow prayer."— Smelleanor
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- 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 my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.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 used to have to say the Lord's prayer everyday, but I would wonder where my daily bread was.— caledonia