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I used to believe that, because my mom told me never to put a plastic bag over my head, that if I did I would die instantly.

Sam

I thought that when we died, we would already be laying neatly and calmly in our caskets, surrounded by friends and family who would sadly say goodbye and then we'd die and be buried.

Anon

i used to believe that the little dust particles that you can only see in the light were spirits and everytime i saw them i would get really close and look for my grandpa's

ryanlover

My sister told me that if I died any other way than a gunshot, I'd go straight to heaven. But if I died from being shot, I'd have to wait for a month before I could go to heaven. I was so scared I'd get shot - I really didn't want to have to wait, and I could imagine being in the ground in intense pain, looking out through nmy coffin at the still living people, waiting for my month to be over.

K8y

I used to think that when people died they didn't really die they just left home and travelled around the world until they found another family they liked and settled down with them. I was quite insulted that no dead people decided to live with us!

Jez

i used to believe that heaven was just a place people went when thwey died, so when my aunt died i said "i want to die so i can go to heaven and see my aunt again" and i was 8 when my mom explained to me that i wouldn't exactly see my aunt when i died.

The Person

After I learned to ride my bike I rode it all over the neiborhood. Unfortunetly my bike was not very good and the chain would often fall off. One day while riding down the street, my chain fell off. I was terrified because there was a car coming. I knew I was about to die. I closed my eyes and braced for impact. When I opened my eyes again the car was gone. I knew I had just died. I sat on the curb and started to cry. Finally one of my brothers started yelling for me to come home. I slowly walked home, wondering what they would say when they saw I was dead. When I got home, my brother asked why I was crying. I told him all about my death. He laughed at me, called me stupid and probably won't let me forget it until I actually do die.

George

When i was young about 6-7 i thought that you only lived to 15 luckly i lived longer than that.

charli

I used to believe that people can only faint once and if they fainted again, they'd actually die. So when i was about 8, my sister fainted on a car workshop because of sunstroke and i couldn't stop crying because i thought she was going to die the next time she fainted. When she woke up, i told her that "i'd take care of you so you won't die", she asked me what i meant and i told her. She laughed at me that she even forgotten about the heat and told me the real thing. I was in shock after she told me.

envster

When my great grandfather died I was about 4 or 5. My family never attened curch before so I didn't exactly know how to pray. So I am told I 'taguht' my younger cousins how to pray. I had told them to put thier hands together and spin around in circles and speak loudly. We had done this right in front of his coffin. I really didn't know what death was at the time. I thought he was asleep and we were trying to wake him up. I feel really bad about that now.

Anti-chinchilla

When I was younger my sister who was 6 years older than me used to drag me across my lawn towards sun rays that come down through the clouds, she told me that they were rays from heaven and that if you go under one you would be sucked up to heaven. She use to tell me i'd never see my parents again, so i would start crying thinking i was going to die! I believed her for the longest time too!

Anon

I used to believe, that there was a special garden somewhere, like near a beach. It wasn't really a "garden" it was like that soil though. And that if you stepped in the garden, a devil lady would come up of the ground and pull you beneath the surface, and you would die, unless this other lady, that looked exactly like her, would come and save you. (I thought this whole thing up so what comes next will seem weird.) I used to have dreams about mistaking the hero lady for the devil lady, and she would pull beneath the ground, but once she got down everything but the head, I would wake up sweating. It was a REALLY scary thing to think of.

a little albino ferret

I used to think that spirits were sort of like little black bats, and when you died, they would fly around the world forever.

Suz

My cousins nan died not long ago and we had to explain why she had died and she demanded to know where she was. We told her she had gone to heaven which was in the sky. One day in the car she got all excited when she saw a plane and felt clever when she saidshe knew they going to heaven.

Jna (UK, 16)