sleeping

when i was little my mum told me that if i didnt go to bed before 7:00 a huge elephant was going to come and stamp all over my bedroom so i made sure i went to bed on time.

Nikki loser

When was about 6, I would lay in bed and hear the blood rushing on my ears. I thought that I was going to get hit by a train when I eventually fell asleep. I stayed up pretty late for about 2 years.

Geena Usrey

When i lay down to sleep and heard the noise of the blood in my ears i thought it meant i was going to have a nightmare.

Kaya

I used to belief that after I'd gone to bed and the light was turned out there were these lights that came and turned into weapons and killed you if you didn't go to sleep but first would kill all your family and friends....I used to try to get to sleep as fast as possible, and sometimes actually imagined i was seeing them...I called it 'the nightmare when I'm awake'

Scared of spooky lights

I used to believe that my whole life was a dream, giving me a complete view of what my life would be like. it would seem to laast years, complete with my own dreams inside this dream. And when in my life i died i would just wake up as a tiny little baby with complete knowledge of what would happen in my life. I still belive this a tiny bit....

Dreamer Baby

When I was younger, I thought that when you fell asleep, you would go into this factory and a nice little old lady would send you through a portal and you would dream. Sometimes, instead of a nice little old lady, there would be a witch and she woud give you a nightmare. I just remember imagining all these beds filled with sleeping children on conveyor belts.

Emmy

I used to think that when people go to sleep, their body fires all their 'workers' and only had one person - the ermergency worker. And there would be a sign 'help wanted'. When you woke up you would have all the workers back. I had an active imagination.

SFMF

I used to think that the reason that you had bad breath in the morrning was because at night there were little bugs, like fleas, that would play in your mouth. And when you started to wake up the fleas would hop out really quick, but when you started to close your mouth one farted cause he got scared.
And thats why your breath smelled. So i would try to sleep with my mouth closed but they always seemed to get in.

melissa

When my sister and I were little, we took the expression "Go to sleep" literally. We thought that when we would go to bed, the bed would become a car and take us to a place called sleep. I remember we laid awake one night talking about what it was like when our bed would take us there and what it would be like. I believe we had a water bed at the time, and when you rolled over, it moved. It was cool.

keyboardplayer

I used to think that my furniture, epecially my book case, gave me nightmares when I didn't act the way they wanted me to. I would always have to sleep facing up, without my ears touching the pillow, and the bedroom door always had to be open just the right amount. My stuffed dragon, however, ate bad dreams, so he could protect me.

SW

Sometimes, as I lay in bed trying to fall asleep, a small scratching sound would keep me awake. The strange part about it was that it seemed to come from the inside of the pillow.
My first thought was that it was a small spider trapped inside the pillow and was scratching with one of its little spider legs. I'd punch the pillow, trying to move it way from my ear area. This sometimes worked and I'd go to sleep.
I was slightly nervous with having a scratching spider inside my pillow, but then realized that it didn't make sense. A bug wouldn't survive the occasional washing or trip through the dryer. I also noticed the scratching occurred on other pillows. For a time, I gave up trying to figure it out and was just content that punching the pillow enough times would quiet the scratching.
Later I realized I was hearing my own heartbeat. The shiny fabric of some pillow covers was reflecting the sound.

HermitCrab

I used to believe that when I went to sleep, the whole world did too...haha

I used to believe that I could live for ever...lol

Mylou

I used to believe that adults never went to sleep

Anon

When I was little, everytime after I would take a nap, I would wake up scared because I thought it was the next day and I had missed school!

Provi

I used to believe that when I would take a nap during the day and wake up past 6pm, I was the cause of it becoming dark outside.

Anon

I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.

Molly

My mom, having seen this in many old movies and TV shows, believed that if your hand fell off the bed while sleeping that you would die. Because of this, she slept with her hands curled tight to her chest.

Anon

The first time I noticed that I could hear my pulse in my ear when my head was on the pillow was when I was sick. My mom came in and felt my forehead and said "Oh good, your fever's going down." So for a long time I thought that the pulse I was hearing was the sound of a fever going down. Boy, I had a lot of fevers, and most of them went unnoticed by grownups, but I could hear them going down when I got in bed at night!

K.