I went to my great-uncle's funeral when I was about 6. After that, I believed that if I fell asleep with my hands folded across my torso, that I would die in my sleep.
I'm 27, and I still refuse to put my hands on my chest when I go to sleep!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I believed you could dry your hands with hot water, until i got a chance to try it.— A A RENN
- i used to believe that when i was in funeral the person in the casket was just asleep for a while— Edgar
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I'm deaf in one ear. Until I was 7 I believed that if I didn't sleep on my good ear, dinosaurs would eat me.Anon
- I used to believed that when I went to sleep my heart took a rest too, and didn't pump at all while I slept.— Lara
- i used to think when i fell asleep spiders would capture me and eat me.— SPIDERMAN