afterlife

when i was little i used to believe that when you died you ended up at the top of a jungle gym with a lot of different slides, and each slide had a different animal or whatnot above it and whichever one you slid down thats what you were re-incarnated into.

weenie

I used to believe that when I died God would grant me one wish...and I was going to ask him to go all the different places in the universe.

Jessica

When I was little I was helping my dad dig a hole for some fondations we found an old underground bunker. It scared me because I thought we opened Hell

Anon

When I was a kid I was convinced there was going to be a rapture, and I was both thrilled and terrified of this. I "knew" that it was supposed to be on roshashannah(bad spelling) of 1987, but I was scared that all the trumpets were going to blow me apart on account of being so loud. (sort of like a big god bomb I guess.)

Anyway, on the appointed night I had one of those totally real feeling dreams, you know the kind, and I was sitting in the back yard when the trumpets went off. It was a most horrendous noise, and when I braced myself for the floating, which I was told was supposed to be a very fast sort of floating, nothing happened. Then a quirky song started playing, sort of like the snack break song in the movie "Ben-Hur" and that's when the credits started rolling signalling the end of the world, just like at the end of a movie. I don't remember what they said but it was sort of like an april fools kind of gotcha type thing. When I woke up the next morning I was relieved to me on planet earth because I was probably going to be able to have sex after all, that is unless the rapture predicters were off just a little bit. So for a month I waited for it to happen. Then I just accepted that It must sort of like one of those "a watched kettle never boils," type of concepts.

Anon

i used to believe that in your next next life depending on how good you were you came back as an animal an the gooder u were the better the animal

georgina

When I was in 3rd grade, this rather unpleasant girl in my class told me that once in a while, when an evil person died and was supposed to go to hell, their spirit went to heaven by mistake. Good spirits sometimes ended up in hell as well and the devil would not send you back. I was traumatized, because my dog had recently died and I was panic-stricken with the thought that he might be in hell. Thank God I confided this to my mother as soon as I did, who quickly reassured me by saying hell and the devil don't even exist and that evil people just sleep when they die. Six years later, I still really dislike that girl for what she did to me.

miscarriages of justice in the afterlife

When I was little I thought that when you died an angel would come down to earth and wrap you in plastic wrap and carry you to heaven (or hell, if you were bad.)
Then, when you got into space you would become alive again so you could see what space looked like. Also, I belived that if you were famous or a good person, God, Mary, or Jesus would carry you to heaven instead since you were special.

Death by plastic wrap

When I was young I thought when you die if you go to heaven a magical escalator appears that you ride up to heaven and that if you go to hell, you go down a shaft down to fiery hell

Anon

I use to believe that when you die you become an animal like a dog or a rabbit etc. That god would asign you a sertain amount of animals then were your done being an animal if you were good at being one you would edventally go to heaven!!

Diana

When I was five, I believed that there was a big ark floating above the clouds. One day, it would swoop down and gather all the good people.

Inside it would look like a congergation, but have lots of animals inside.

Chris

When i was younger, i was confused about this whole heaven thing.
I asked my mom and she said, when you get to heaven you can have anything you want, whenever you want!
So i pictured myself as..i dont know
Picture someone on an island under a tiki roof thing with servants fanning you with leaves and another servant coming up with a silver platter with a turkey on top.
Thats what i thought heaven was.

Jessica S

I thought that if you go to Antartica that you would fall and go to hell.

stacy

i used to believe that your life was a dream and when you died you would wake up as a baby and start your life again as the same person but different things would happen. for example: if you was poor then when you woke up you would become rich.

Anon

When I was little, I used to believe that whatever you were buried in or with after you died, is what you'd have in heaven. So when my grandfather died when I was 6, I started spouting off all this stuff we had to put in his casket, so he'd have it in heaven. The only good thing about this belief was that every time someone in my family died, I was sure to chear everyone up. It wasn't until I was 9 and my great grandmother died, that I realized you couldn't take anything with you to heaven.

Anon

When i was little i was blowing bubbles outside and then thought to myself 'oh my god im probably disturbing everyone in heaven with these bubbles!!' (cuz they always went up into the sky) so i never blew bubbles again.

Anon

In the 1970s, when I was six or seven years old, I came across a fundamentalist booklet that proclaimed "Hell on Earth in 1984." Since I didn't know any better I believed it and for a few years it floated around in the back of my head that I was doomed and my time was running out.

Anon

Because of the wonderful and beautiful things I was told about heaven, I wanted to die at age 6 so I could go there.

Rick

I thought that any paper on the ground would catch fire because it was so close to hell.

Heavenly person

I used to beleive when you died, based on a greek myth I heard when I was younger, you were brought back as something depending on what you were like.A bad person could have been brought back as an nt or a left testicle [heh] an average joe could be maybe a bug or a dog or something like that, and a very good guy like a preist could come back as another human with all their former memories. If they came back as a person 3 times, they would be sent straight to heaven, the VIP Section.

Anon

I used to think hell was directly under the asphalt of the street. When we lost a baseball in a hole I was afraid for the grownup who stuck his hand down there to get it.

Isabeau