I used to think that when you died you got to take whatever you were carrying with you to heaven. Every night I'd stick my hand through a hole in my blankie and wrap it around my wrist just in case I died in my sleep.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- i used to believe when you died you went to heaven and played sale of the century!!!!Anon
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- I used to think you could drive to heaven to visit your friends and relatives who had died before....— wombat