when i was little, i was so scared of death, as most kids are, i was so scared to go to sleep because i was afraid that i would die. I always heard people say, "Ohh... they died in their sleep." To comfort me, my mom, told me that it was impossible to die in your sleep. I guess I wanted to believe it so bad, I did for years. It wasn't until I was an adult with children of my own that my great-aunt passed away and to comfort me my mom hugged me and said, "It's OK honey, she died peacefully in her sleep." I was horrified! I turned and said, "That impossible." Then she explained the truth. Thank you mom for trying to comfort me, I wish I still believed.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- 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 was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- I used to believe that the only way to get to the next day was to go to sleep.— C.C.