When I was little, I believed that when we fell asleep, we went to heaven and that's where our dreams took place (which would explain why we sometimes see passed loved ones), but when you woke up, you returned to earth.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I believed that if I fell off the earth I would end up on the Plante of The Apes.— IslandGirlie
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- i used to think when i fell asleep spiders would capture me and eat me.— SPIDERMAN
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep in the bathtub I would wake up in the sea.— Brenda
- I thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep lying on my front that my boobs wouldn't grow. And they didn't.— Booey