I used to believe that if you brain was dead, then you couldnt stay alive no matter what. Well that is technically true, but my mother recently told me of certain machines that can keep the rest of your body working while your brain is dead! Isn't technology great?
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- my mom told not to pick my nose because if i fell i would poke my brain.— brent
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl