sleeping

At some point when I was little, I had some eye-related illness, and there was one time when my eyelids got sort of glued together. Because of that, I was afraid to keep my eyes closed too long for some time. But I knew people slept with their eyes closed. So at night, I would periodically close my eyes for a short amount of time, thinking that it would be enough. I remember some dreams from that time, though, meaning that proper sleep eventually set in.

Anon

I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since

scotty la

I used to believe that it was very likely that I would die in my sleep while I was still a kid. I thought that just the act of sleeping was enough to cause a person death.

Mariah

When I was little, in order to get me and brother to go to bed early, my mother told me that every hour's sleep before midnight was worth two hours after midnight. Things got a bit confusing when, twenty five years later, I worked night shifts and slept from about 7am to 2pm. Is that before or after midnight???

Bob Peters

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

Whenever I hear myself breath at night, i think a little orange muppet wasbreathing and he would jump out and bite my arms off so i always hide deep under my covers. still do!

MUPPETS ARE EEEVIL!

when i was little i thought to get to sleep, you had to close your eyes and hold your breath. if i couldnt sleep i would lay in bed trying to hold my breath over and over again and trying to remember how i did it the night before.

christi

When i was around 9 or so my dad told me that if you sleep on your back with your knees bent upward towards the ceiling, little goblins would sit on your knees and make scary faces, causing you to have nightmares. (apparently a South American myth to scare kids. I dont know) But to this day, i'm 25 years old now, if i find myself even laying with my knees bent i still get a little paranoid about those little goblins getting ready to scare me.

Mike

I used to believe adults couldn't dream. My parents never talked about their dreams to me until I was about 10 or so.

Hal

I woke up one night when I was about four and decided I was cold, so I put on my thickest Aron (kind of wool) cardigan and got into bed. Two minutes later my mum came in a saw me. She got me up and changed, cos as she said, I would have melted in that. For many (believe me - too many!)I believed that I would have melted into a puddle and materialisd somewhere else!!!!!

Lisa Willson

I used to think if you slept on your right side(the side in which I thought your heart was)you would crush your heart during the night so I would always sleep on my left side, little did I know your heart was on your left when I found out I was horrified that I came so close to death so many times, I could barely sleep anymore unless i was on my back

LP

when we were lazy little kids me and my sisters would never bother to take our socks off to sleep, until we were told wearing socks to sleep makes you blind. to this day i refuse to wear socks to sleep. im 23.

Anon

I used to believe that when I kicked my blankets off in my sleep, a cannon ball came in through the window and shot them off.

Anon

My mom told me that you have nightmares because you are thinking about scary thoughts befoer you go to bed and that whatever you think about before you go to bed will be what you dream about. So, for years, I just pictured in my head myself, surrounded by a huge crowd, saying "I love people." and everyone would go "Awww..." I thought of this repeatedly until I fell asleep.

Ben

I could never sleep with my back to the wall because I thought that Marty Feldman was going to come through it and pull me out onto our roof. And if I slept facing the wall, a one eyed Big Bird would do the same thing. Something about the eyes...

Katie

When I was small I believed tomorrow only came because I went to sleep. I thought if only I could stay awake all night it would always be today.

Fronika

When I was little, I used to think that if you woke up fast enough that you could see yourself sleeping

Call me crazy but i believed it for a really really long time until I was like 8 or something like that.

Hayley

When I was very young I used to believe that when I went to bed at night, the thumping (my heartbeat) I would hear against my pillow was an army marching outside.

Nikki

When i was a child, i used to believe that when i went to sleep, my parents would have a huge party, eat at my favorite restaurants without me, and stop when i woke up.

Matt

My grandmother told me if I went to sleep with my socks on, I would wake up blind. One night it got too cold and I took the risk.

Erika