When I was 9, my mum told me that some places on the attic floor would collapse if i even touched them and that I would fall to my death....I then fell against one of these boards and fainted from concussion. I woke up an hour later screaming, I died! I died! My parents were baffled. Duh.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I used to believe that when we died (and animals) died they were picked up in a bus with there name on it.— Lawny
- I used to believe everyone died when they turned 100, and they never died before or after.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe I could fly from my bed but I didn"t ....I fell on the floor!Anon