When I was younger I thought that everything I did was written down in a big book that other people would get to read when I died. Sometimes I would "remember" and in my head I would be reciting what would go in the book. I suppose I was influenced by Michael Ende's The Neverending Story.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara