I used to believe that a character who dies in a movie is played by a person who wants to commit suicide, so when a person wanted to die s/he'd simply ask for a role in a movie which the character dies.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I thought Hurricane Dennis (in 2005) and the character Dennis from the Spongebob movie were related somehow.Anon
- when i played pretend i always wanted to be the animal. i didnt want to b a person cause their boring lol— Melissa
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I used to think that "Jabberwocky" was a character from Star Wars.— Katya
- I used to believe Jessica Simpson was a secret character from "The Simpsons"— Lemon Jelly
- I thought that Ted Bundy was a character on "Married With Children."— Patrick