I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey
- I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon