Just like someone else here, I thought that pain in a dream resulted in real life pain. What convinced me of this was when I had a dream that commies shot my leg, and I woke right up with sciatica pain so bad, I had to go to the hospital. Woah.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- When I was younger I used to believe that when I hit an object they would feel pain like they were living.— Alice
- I uesd to believe that the world was just someones dream and that when they woke up we would all disappear.— tigga
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos
- I used to think life was a dream and I was in heavenAnon
- 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 used to believe that the last line of Row Row Row Your Boat was 'Life is butter dream'.— Mindless Misfit