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When I was about 4 or 5,my grandmother died, and my mom "explained" to me that dying is like sleeping, you jus never wake up...well I was so scared, I would refuse to sleep for like a week...

shasta

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

When i was about five, i used to think that when you died- u would go to a brand new planet, just next door, and when u died their ud go to another planet....and carry on till u got back to ur first planet

Aimee

When my Mom left my mischeivous brother to babysit me, he would pretend to die and I'd be left alone for monsters to get. Once he died, so I died right next to him believing the monsters would forget about us.

Chicken

When I was a kid I was always afraid of dying in a car accident. I noticed in movies and such that when people died, their eyes would close. So I thought that meant if I "died" with my eyes already closed, they would just open and I'd live. So whenever our car stopped short or slip on wet roads (etc.) I would clench my eyes shut thinking that would protect me. I didn't realize that was wrong until I saw a bad horror movie in which people died and their eyes actually stayed open.

Enrico

When i was little i believed when you died you turned into a star. even though u believe in heaven n god n everything....i still kind of think we turn into stars!

elm0

When I was 7 my grandpa died. I actually believed for the longest time that the hospital was playing some kind of sick joke. I would wait for him to come walking through the door everyday. It took almost a year to belive he was gone.

stephanie

I used to believe that your life expectancy was inversly proportional to how much you talked. The more you talked, the sooner you died. And you couldn't go through life not talking to anybody, which is why people didn't live forever.

gerald626

i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die.

Kritikaa

once, when i was younger, my grandparents got into a motorcycle accident. when the phone rang, i didnt think anything of it. after that day, and for a few years afterwards, i thought if i didn't think "please don't let it be something bad" between the first and second rings of the phone, then either I or someone I knew was gonna die on the spot. this belief was especially frightening when i forgot to say it and i found my mother sleeping. i thought she was dead.

Anon

When I was six I found a giant mushroom covered with ants in my grandmas backyard. Being a curious child and never seeing one before I just had to touch it. Afterwards I went up to my aunt and asked her what that was and she replied, "Oh honey, don't touch that. It's a mushroom and it may be poisonus." So I ran up to my dad and started crying telling him I wanted to go home. I was afraid that since I touched it I was going to fall over dead at any given moment but I was too afraid to tell him that.

Sara

When I was 12 I went to this camp that my mom made me go to and it was so boring that I deceided to tell this other kid that had a lot of bug bites that if you got over a hundred of them you would die and she believed me. She counted them all up and she had over a hundred and she started to cry and screaming really loud about how she didnt want to die. You could just imagine how happy the counslers were with me after that.

Annie

My great grandmother died several years ago. I was quite young. I asked why she died and everyone said "heart attack" and I thought that meant her heart attacked her. Then I thought (from watching a lot of TV) that the only way to get hurt from a heart attack was to clutch your heart. Back to my great grandmother. Then I heard my cousin and aunt talking about my great grannie, and the were saying "Now she'll meet Elvis and other famous people of her time" and I said "I thought Elvis was a chef! I didn't know he died!!!" (I got Elvis and Emril mixed up). To this day I still think Elvis and Emril were the same person.

Anon

My cousins and I came to the conclusion at our eldest aunts open casket wake that since she was dead the watch she was wearing must be dead too. We used to believe that your watch would stop if you died. That kind of made me not want to wear a watch anymore, but hahaha I won't take mine off now.

Kristine

when i was little someone told me that you died if you put make up on.
they actually believed it

SeZz

I used to believe that when you died, your skeleton left your body and went to heaven, and all the rest of the flesh was left behind. The skeletons could walk around in heaven.

Ben

Back when I was four or five, I had been seeing my Grandpa and his wife, Lydia, on an almost daily basis. My Grandpa was a lazy old man, so his wife would do nearly everything for him. Somehow, I was convinced that, even though they both were and appeared the same age, Lydia was somehow my Grandpa's mother.

So one day, I told my Dad, "Grandpa's Mom is really nice!" And he told me, "That's his wife." I asked, "Where's his Mom, then?" Dad said, "She died a long time ago."

Apparently, I had asked, "Who shot her?"

Maya

When I attended my first wake, I remember the my dead next door neighbor opening his eyes. Because my aunt was holding me so I could look in the coffin, I thought that it must just be like this. She wasn't scared. The next day, I went to the funeral. I remember the sight of the coffin being closed, and going to the the graveside. However, they did not lower the coffin into the ground, so I thought that after everyone left the dead body would be removed from the casket and dumped into the ground, like you bury a dead pet! You could use that coffin over and over again. Protect your kids from funerals as long as possible.

jmarie

I used to think and believe that dead people if not properly buried in a well ventillated grave,they would suffocate and die over and over again with great suffering and pain.Consequently I was afraid even of thinking that someone who died would be buried.I preferred for them to be left out somewhere to decompose in the open.

anon

i used to believe that the stars would fall anytime soon and we would all die just like in the movie armagedon. my mum had to send me for counselling cos i was too afraid to sleep at nite.

matilda