I was told that relatives who die could 'watch over you from heaven'; every now and again, this thought creeps into the back of my mind, especially when doing something embarrassing or private. I wonder, 'who's watching me now?' I think this explanation of the afterlife could cause people to be paranoid, or at least add fuel to the fire....
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I used to think you could drive to heaven to visit your friends and relatives who had died before....— wombat
- I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- After being told by my parents or relatives to "behave," I would usually reply: "I am being have."— Ed
- when i was younger i thought that areoplanes drove dead people to heavenAnon
- I used to think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim