people

When I was young (okay I still believe it when I'm a little tired) I believed that you could die without realizing it. When a car zoomed by quickly I would wonder if I had been run over and had not yet realized I was dead.

Anon

I used to believe that dead people weren't put in coffins, they were just buried in the ground and at night the cemertry would be full of dead floating people scaring us away.
I used to hate going there in the daytime and at night!

Melaine - Darwin NT

when i was little i thought people never died but shrank back into babys when they were old and when i grew up i would be looking after my mum and dad when they were babys

sarah

When i was a kid I used to believe that smoke was dead souls floating around

Nick aged 8

When I was little, my grandpa had a heart attack while in the bathroom. For a long time, I wouldn't go to that bathroom because I thought my grandpa was lying dead on the floor.

Anon

I used to believe that everyone lived for exactly 100 years, and that as soon as you blew out the candles on your 100th birthday cake you would die, surrounded by your family.

John

when i was young my father laughed and told me that my grandfather died while he was sitting in a chair and farting - and he died because the smell.

i was 6 yo and i really bealived it..... :]

matan

Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.

KL.R

when i was really little(about 2-3), and my family and i would ride in a car with the windows open, i used to be pertrified that i would fly out the window, so i used to hold tightly onto anything i can grab. i was ssssoooooo scared.

Egreatness

I used to believe that those vases that they put on grave stones sometimes were a sort of window to were you could see the persons face.

Catie

when i was about 8 or 9, my dad took my sister and i to a chinese restraunt. there were quarter machines there. (you know, where you put in a quarter and somthing in a little bulb comes out. well i got a little squeeze toy (anger thing) and when i got home, my dad went to bed and my sister was in bed, too. i was the only one awake and i was just watching tv chewing on the anger thing. soon it bursted and a bunch of sand went into my mouth. i was freaking out because i thought it was poison! i thought i was gonna die! so i went running into my dads room and told him and he laughed and said 'yeah, your gonna die!' and started crying so i called my mom and told ehr i was going to die and that i loved her and then i told her why and she said i wasnt gonna die. i felt like killing my dad!

dessy

As a kid someone had told me about people dying of suffocation. Once me & my friends had gone for a slumber party at a friend's place. At night my friend's mum shut all the windows since it was cold. I couldn’t sleep for a very long time thinking that soon all of us will breathe all the available air & soon die of suffocation. As a result, I woke up & stealthily opened one of the windows.
I woke up the next morning feeling rather cold but also smug about the fact that how I'd saved everyone from dying!
I still don't shut the windows!

Anon

I used to think life was a dream and I was in heaven

Anon

I used to believe that my grandpa died while mowing the lawn. I imagined that as he walked across the lawn, the mower went out of control and flew backwards, severing his legs. I figured that he must've died from the loss of blood, and I felt bad that he had to die in such a cruel way.

Later I learned that he died of a heart attack in his home. I didn't believe my parents when they told me the truth of his death. Lawnmowers still frighten me; I'm afraid that they'll sever my legs, too.

Alli

As a child I always believed that if someone you loved died and you looked up at the stars, and you looked for the brightest one it would be the person you loved and they would always be looking after you. It gave me a sense of peace to think they were still around. I still find it reassuring to do this now.

I told my children the same thing when their grandfather died and it helped them, they only had to look and they could still see him.....unfortuately they now sit there pointing out the three gerbils, twenty something fish, their friends dogs, birds the cat has caught........!!!!!!!

Vikkie

I had a brother die when I was 10 years old, he was 14, and we were very close. I told him when he was sick that I would miss him if something happend to him, and he didn't come home from the hospital. He told me he would be up in the clouds forever, and that if I looked real hard I would see him, and that I could talk to him. I believed this for many years, even though I knew it wasn't possible. You know I still find myself looking up, and smiling . It just makes me feel good. I still think he's up there looking down on me, and helping me get through some though things.

Niessi

When I was very young I used to believe that if you got anything small and sharp stuck in you (eg a needle)it would get inside you, travel through your bloodstream straight to your heart and kill you. Why did I believe this? Because my mother told me. Someone had told her the same thing many years previously and she still believed it at the age of 35

maladjusted maggie

i used to believe that if you walked past a funeral parlour or a church when a funeral was going on, you had to hold your breath and cross your fingers or you would die with a red cross on your hand. The end.

shazza

when i was ten i learnt the word "suicide" and up until the time i was twelve i thought it was pronounced "sewercide" and that when people killed themselves they would do it in the sewer to avoid possible rescue.

witch

My mother tells me that when I was young, I used to asked her often if:
"I was dead before I was born."

To this day, she has never reaaallly been able to answer the question. Can anybody?

gschmigel