sleeping

As a kid, I always thought there was a little projectionist in my head while I slept and showed me my own private movies.

Tim333

my evil sister told me that i would immediately die if i stayed up past six in the morning. thanks, now i'll be lucky if i CAN sleep before six in the morning.

autumn

After watching a Twilight Zone episode, I believed if I slept too close to the wall, I would fall through to another dimension.

IJP

I used to believe that if u dreamt of somethin more than once it would come true, this really freaked me out cos i just had recurring dreams of my school bus crashing and every1 died. When the bus did crash " which scared me completley" i screamed really loud and cried but we had only cliped the back of a car. i was a ashamed to got back on the bus lol

Stephy baby

My dad had really thick glasses. He would often to fall asleep wearing them. I used to stare at him wondering how he could see his dreams with his specs outside his closed eyes.

Spit

I used to have trouble sleeping at night. My mother would try to talk me into falling asleep sometimes by saying, "You need your rest, we're getting up at the crack of dawn tomorrow!" What I heard was "We're getting up at the crackadon tomorrow," and I always thought she was talking about some dinosaur that was out roaming about very early in the morning.

I

I learned the prayer "Now I lay me down to sleep..." to say at bed time, but the line "If I should die before I wake" disturbed me greatly and I was convinced I might die before I woke, so I started trying to sleep as stiff and strait with my arms at my side like the dead.

Chris

When i was about 6 or 7 my mum always used to say to me that i would have to be in bed before the moon came out. she said if i wasnt in bed then the moon man would come out and get me. when i realised it wasnt true i felt so stupid and all my friends just laughed at me!

fanny

When I got into bed at night and closed my eyes I used to think if I opened them more than three times I would have a nightmare.

I got very bored with squeezing my eyes shut everynight I just used to ignore it. It's perhaps why I have bad eyes now. :)

Sarahsaz

i used too believe that mice worked my brain. When i went to sllep at night i would ask them which dream i wanted that night. really thought it was some kind of video thing going on. wish life really was like that!!

wig

When I was little, my brother told me that if I slept with my legs curled up to keep warm, when I woke in the morning I'd be stuck like that for good; I assumed this was true, so every night I made myself straighten out my legs into the cold place at the bottom of the bed...

BT

I once saw an illustration of Rip Van Winkle sleeping with his long beard outside the bedclothes. This led me to believe that women with large breasts did the same.

Mike B. London

I used to believe that if i didn't go to sleep before midnight the bogeyman would come and get me!

bogeyman

One November 5th - Fireworks Night - I couldn't get to sleep due to the noise. My Mum told me she had some secret stuff to block the sound out.

It worked, and I fell asleep quickly. I believed it for ages.

Then I found out it was hair wax.

Tom

When my sister and I were little, our foster mother used to get us to settle down by saying, "Let's see who can get to sleep first!" We bought it, quieted down, and got busy getting to sleep.
How would we have known who won? Of course, by morning, we had forgotten the whole thing.

Lisa

As a young child, somewhere around three to five years old, I had read many fairy tale/ nursery rhyme type tales. Whenever someone was asleep in a bed in one of these stories, the picture showed their feet uncovered, usually hanging over the edge of their bed. After reading many of these, I (usually becoming cold during winter nights) was afraid that I would grow so tall that my feet would hang over the edge of the bed. I'm not sure WHY this nagged at me; it just did.

Arwen