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I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to Xs

Anon

I used to believe that every one was born with a set amount of sentances and once you got to your last sentance you died. The amount varried from person to person, and that's why people died at different ages. This is also why people spoke about 'last words'

Fewer Sentances Than I Thought

I used to believe up until I was 16 that if you drove or walked into a dead end dead people would come out of the ground and kill you.

Anna

I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.

Anon

When my Grandpa passed away when I was four years old my Mum told me that he had gone to "tomorrow land". I took this to mean that when you died, you just got stuck one day ahead of everyone else. I'm not sure what Mum meant by it, but I never felt sad about the passing of my Grandpa because he never seemed very far away.

Anon

My son was 3 when Dale Earnhardt died. He asked what happened. I told him that Earnhardt was in a crash and died but that he was in heaven with Jesus. A few months later, our cat died. When I told my son that Lucky died, he said "he's in heaven with Jesus and Earnhardt". So everytime he hears that someone dies, he says that it's okay because they are in Heaven with Jesus, Earnhardt, Lucky and our other cat Gypsy!

Sarah (and Patrick) Keller

When I was about four or five, I think, I used to think that people were buried with their heads sticking up out of the ground. This never bothered me...

...Until the day I remember it raining very hard and I got very worried. I told my mother that I was worried for all the dead people and she asked why and I told her I was afraid they'd drown.

She asked me why I thought that the dead people were buried with their heads above ground.

"So that they can talk to people," I said.

My mother was shocked. "Talk to people? But honey, they're dead."

"But why else would so many people go visit their relatives at the cemetary?" I asked her.

To this day, I smile whenever I see people visiting gravesites. Their loved one may not be talking to them, but the memories are.

Sandy Layne

I used to believe that pictures held some mystical spiritual power over the subject. Namely, if the picture was destroyed, so was the person. Something like that. Imagine my dismay when i accidentally spilled elmer's glue on a wallet sized portrait of my dad. When i tried to wipe it off, his face came with it. I cried because i thought that i just killed my dad. Very relieved when he came home from work that evening.

raunchy roy

When I was little we all believed that if you fell into quicksand, you would be ok, until the mud reached your nose. Then you would suddenly die.

Monty

I used to believe that at a funeral they would show the top half only because they had to crumple up the legs so the body could fit in the coffin

Crystal

When I was about 7 or 8, my brother told me if someone looked at all four corners of a room at midnight, they would die the next time they went to sleep. I'm 25 now, and know it isn't true...I caught on by about age 10 or so...but I still can't bring myself to do it.

David

I used to believe that you had to be an adult in order to die, because of all the times on tv and movies when characters said "I'm too young to die."

Anon

I thought you always die if you A. get cancer or B. have a heart attack

Nate

I used to believe that Jason Donovan was an evil murderer who crept around at midnight murdering little girls who foolishly wore red pyjamas ( it was a cunning ploy to trick their parents, the blood wouldn't show up). I was more scared of Jason Donovan than anything before or since.

dodyskin

I used to believe that we could write letters to people who had died. My mother's mother passed away when I was 3, and I'd never met my father's mother. My mother's stepmother sent me clothes for every holiday, and she had me write thank you notes to grandma. Well, I thought that the clothes had been sent from heaven, and the notes were going to one of the grandmas there. I didn't know for the longest time that it was all from the "grandma" who was alive in NYC. It made me really believe in the mail system! and that there must be some sort of transportation back and forth...

Desba Silvers

when i was 8 i used to think that people who died turned into somthing else like santa or the easter bunny (i knew about God i just thought they would work for him)and if u died at the right time u got a good job like santa but if u dident u wound up as cupid!(i dident realize how many people die every day i thought there were only like 20 per year)my great grandfather died in november ok well when christamas time arrived my dad decided to dress up as santa for our family christmas party and when he came inside i was soo ecxited becuase here was grandpa! and i ran over and hugged him and precceded to call him gandpa and tell him i was so haapy to see him all night my parents let it go and explained it to me the next day!

stupid little Jen

When i was liitle i always thought when people died they ALWAYS had their toungues out so when i was playing dead i stuck my toungue out and people always wondered what i was doing...my sister told me later that people usually have their mouths closed but i didn't believe her and just kept sticking my toungue out ....well now i know better

Anon

When I was younger I used to believe that when people died they would just be sleeping for a long time. I always wondered why people didn't just tap them on the shoulder.

Jonseie

Up until I was 5 I thought that every person on the planet would die on the same day. All, that is, except for one very tired old man who was left to the job of burying the bodies. When he finished he would plop down into the last grave and that would be it!

Caryn

I believed that dead people could observe anything living people were doing. Whan my grandfather died I stopped masterbating for months and if I woke up with my hand down my pants I would pray to my grandfather to forgive me.

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