sleeping

When i was about 5 my mum always told me that the sand man was gunna come and put me to sleep by putting sand in my eyes. Well i got so scared i slept witha bandana wraped over my head.

kat

When the house was silent and i was in bed, i could hear my own pulse but because i had a strange imagination i thought that it was a giant man comin to kill me but i was protected my an alarm. The only thing that got me to sleep was the thought that he doesnt know my alarm code. I was still scared though.

Jna (UK, 16)

when i was younger i read a book where someone slept with a calculator under thier pillow and it made them really good at maths. i took this sptory literally and for a few weeks i slept with books about everything i wanted to learn about under my pillow thinking the knowledge would jus jump into my head..it never did.

Anon

i used to think that when you went to sleep you stoped breathing so when i was trying to get to sleep id hold my breath abd think it would help me get to sleep faster.

mel

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 use to think that when you lay your head on your pillow side ways on your ear, there is a little person or silhouette of yourself walking along underneath your hear all alone looking for something. But after all it is the sound of your heart beat.

LeRei

When i was really young, i used to believe that my life was a dream so whenever i went to sleep i would be hoping i would wake up

Adeline.w

That when I dreamed at night, it was because a fog was hovering over my head. White forg for a good dream, black fog for a bad dream

Anon

My mother told me that If I didn't take a nap during the day that the sandman would come and through sand in your eyes. Therefore I thought the sandman was an evil bein waiting for me outside the window

alicia

My sister once told me that if you slept all day, when you wake up you would turn into Dracula. I swear I believd her for a few years!

GB

I used to believe that when ou were in a dream, you were in a far off land that you could not get out of unless someone woke you up, This bacame a problem cause whaen you think that it happens and i can't get out of my own nightmares

Takua1

I used to think that there were Indians under my bed. I would hear the drums beating if I put my head down on the matress. The longer I listened the more scared I got and the Indians would beat the drum louder and faster, louder and faster until I'd scream for my mommy.

Craig

I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.

Knoot

When I was very young, my mother told me not to sleep with the bedsheets over my head because it would make me have trouble getting enough air. After she told me that, I was very careful to make sure I never fell asleep with a sheet covering my head for fear that I would not get enough air and die in my sleep.

Amanda

When I was a kid I used to think that I was just dreaming my whole life and that I would wake up at any minute.

Joe

i used to believe that i could control my dreams by a computer that i had in my brain. i could simply call up a list of possible dreams and "click on" whicheer one i felt like having that night. for some reason my favorite was one called "fish in a bonnet," which was about this little striped fish that wore a pink bonnet and solved crimes.

Anon

When I was about 6 I read something in a magazine about how people of a certain culture (no idea which) believed that if you slept with your mouth open your soul would climb out and you would stay asleep forever... this scared the hell out of me and I couldn't go to sleep for ages because I was too afraid my mouth would fall open!

ruth

Just like someone else here, I thought that pain in a dream resulted in real life pain. What convinced me of this was when I had a dream that commies shot my leg, and I woke right up with sciatica pain so bad, I had to go to the hospital. Woah.

I still blame the commies in my dream.

When my mom would put us to bed she would say goodnight kids! And then we would be like can we have a night night drink? She would go get us some water with crushed ice in it, and we thought that it was a magic potion to help us sleep better at night!!!

Night night drinkers???

When I was a kid, I used to think that if I slept with my feet off the deck, a monster would pull my feet and take me to Neverland, and then I would not see my family more, even when the wealther was hot I slept with the body covered with fear.

Rafaela Leal