i used to believe that when you died you would have to climb up a ladder and then God would be standing there with a massive clipboard - and on it were all the good things and bad things you'd done. i thought that santa went to God and had a discussion about whether i was on the good list or the naughty list. i used to worry so much about this... :)
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the credits at the end of a movie was a list of people in that were watching it.— jon_
- when I was a little boy I thought i would become zidane but i was not as good as him— elbouteman10
- I thought that a person's motorskills meant how good they were at driving!Anon
- I thought when someone was described as being "mild-mannered" it meant they didn't have very good manners— Samilton Duerheiser
- When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!— Lou V.
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D