I used to think that when someone died, they became one of their already alive family members and therefore "replace" the personality of them. When my grandma died (I was in elementary school at the time), I felt really worried she would "take over" my brother and he'd turn into someone completely different.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- 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 people died their eyes would turn to XsAnon
- but my aunt used to tell me that if i eat too many noodles, i wud turn into a mummy when i died Anon
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv