sleeping

I used to believe that if I fell asleep with my mouth open, a bad guy (like a criminal type) would come put sleeping pills into my mouth. As I got older I rationalized that it wouldn't matter anyway, as I was asleep already. And as an adult I now actually need sleeping pills to help me sleep.

duck

i used to think if you dreamed about rape , you would get raped

Dont' need to know!!

When I was a little girl and frequently woke up at night having nightmares. I would go climb in bed with mom and dad, and everytime I did, mom was sleeping on her back. Well I thought that only mom's could sleep on their backs. So I grew up sleeping on my tummy. When grown tho, I found out it was true. When you are pregnant, you can only sleep on your back, or side! I did learn to sleep on my back.

Leslie

when i was in 2nd grade someone had a health book for 6th graders. Some one said when u sleep ur eyes go back into your brain, i believed that until 5th grade

Scarred For life!

As A Child, I used to believe I did not breathe at night, I did not have to you see

Kira Pangburn

I used to believe that if you kept your eyes shut tight long enough, you would fall asleep before anyone else, and if you opened your eyes even a crack before you fell asleep, you'd have to start all over again...

Renae

I used to believe that the boogie man put boogers in my nose while i was sleeping. Thanks to my neighbor!

Katie

I used to believe that someone was watching me while I was sleeping, that's why I used to sleep early with the lights on.

Mr Macas

I used to believe that if I left my window open at night a bat would make a nest in my hair.

Anon

When I was a child my father told my little brother, if you stay up until late you will see the sandman.
My brother fell asleap on a carpet so he didn't see the sandman.

Rick

This isn't so much childhood belief as childhood logic.
When I was a kid and I was dreaming I was always terrified at the fact that I couldn't figure out whether I was dreaming or not. But one day I realised that whatever you don't want to happen in dreams is generally what happens. So I took a fear I used to have as a child of being scared of gorillas to overcome this.
When ever I was sleeping and not quite sure whether I was or not I would use reverse psycology on my subconscious mind and repeat the words "I hope a gorilla doesn't show up" over and over, and if one appeared I realised I was in a dream and had nothing to be worried about.

jack diddly squat

I used to believe there was something seriously wrong with me because I would have nightmares that all my teeth were falling out. After discussing this with several friends over the years, I know this is a common nightmare of anyone who grinds their teeth while they are sleeping.

me again

When i was young i thought someone would come when i was sleeping and cut off my toes with an axe.

Barthom

When I was younger, I used to believe that when I slept and kept my palms open, a bird or something like that would "drop one" in there! I believed this because my older cousin told me a story back then of a little child who went to the bathroom and didnt have any toilet paper so he had to hold his poo in his hand. I was very crazy back then!

MaXxXx

my mom used to use to tell us that if we stayed up to late, we would turn into pumpkins......i was afraid of becoming a pumpkin for the longest time.

ke.

when i was a kid about 4 i used 2 think that when u went 2 sleep when u wake up u were a different person,

lulu

When i was 4 i my sister and i shared a room. We slept on a bunk bed. She had the top and i had the bottom. One night i heard this awful sound. and being only 4 i thought that there was a munster under my bed! i was so scared! When i told my mum about my fears she told me that it was just my sister snoring!!!!

Sleeping Beauty

When I was young, ever since I can rember, and until I was probley 10, I was strange.lol. I would lay down to sleep, and start dreaming that I was a butterfly, I would live out life as a butterfly in these dreams. And right before I woke up, I would lay down and start dreaming about being a human (as a butterfly) I had thoughts and everything in my dream.And each night, my stuff from the nights before dream would be tied in or continued, so I really had a 'life' So for years, I never really knew if I was a human or a butterfly. Because I was always dreaming I was living the life of the other one.

Holly-a very confused child from a very young age...

when i was young i thought it was illegal to sleep with my legs straight, and always had them curled up. one day at my babysitters, i was supposed to be napping but i couldn't sleep and slowly inch by inch stretched my legs out, terrified the whole time that my babysitter was going to come and get me in trouble. ....Nothing happened...I fell asleep.

T

When i was about 5, some kid told me that if you sleep with your mouth open evil spirits enter through it.

Mike