I used to believe that my parents were angels because every morning when I would wake up they would be upstairs but I never heard them come upstairs, so I thought they flew there.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you were naughty at school then you'd have to go upstairs and sit on your bed!— Eve
- Whenever I was upstairs on a bus, I didn't believe that it would fit under the bridge so I used to duck. — Dave, Lancashire
- That there was a zombie living behind the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom.Anon
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos
- I used to believe the dead flew up to heaven.— Pierre, a French student in eighth grade