monsters

I used to believe that there was a monster under my bed and when i went to bed, i would jump onto it so i didn't have to put my feet near it.

Anon

I was pretty sure monsters were real because once I slipped from a nightmare where monsters were taunting me and I was just wrapped up in the blanket and eventually I made a run for it and got my mum and was confused that they were gone when I came back with her.

Another time I was looking at a night light falling asleep and a face came up and talked to me, it reinforced my belief. So far I haven't been proved incorrect though =p.

Dave

I used to believe that there were mosters who lived in the vents and if I stepped on the floor in the dark they would be able to get me. This belief was the result of a recurring nightmare I had when I was little and even though I know it's silly now I still have to have the lamp beside my ben on until I'm safely off the floor.

Maya

My mom use to tell me when I was about 4 if I didn't go to bed their was a big lion in the living room that would come and get me and it would eat me or put me in a adoption home

LeeAnn

I belived all through my childhood (up to 15) years that monsters could only eat me if I was awake,they hid under my bed and anytime they thought I moved they would come up to see if I was awake. This led to many wet beds as I woke up when I had to pee, but I was to scared that if I moved the monsters would come.

Eve

When I was younger I really believed that Unicorns existed and they were just very rare. I actually remember when I found out that they didn't and the realisation that I would never ever see one in real life was very upsetting!!

Emma

My Stepmother led me to believe, at the young age of 6, that if I did not finish my dinner the "Sleastacks" from "Land of The Lost" would come get me. Talk about nightmares.... :)

Jenn

I used to believe that whenever i was on my staircase and i turned the light off, there was a big sort of monster/rat thing in the washing machine room that was on the stairs, so i'd run down the stairs as fast as i could.

psychologically-damaged child

when i was around 7 or 8, i REALLY REALLY thot there was a gorilla in my bedroom wall, and i was especially scared because my brother had made a small hole in the wall, so now i thot they could watch me, and when i wasnt looking the gorillaz would come out to eat me! i was really scared, like actually terrified to go to bed..

pringlez-CAT

whenever i first heard of the boogie man, i was in the front yard of my cousins house. i imaginined this man covered in green boogers (gross) running across the street with a brown bag. i dont remember how i got that one straight...

weird imagination

I always thought that when the trees leaning against the window at night were people trying to get me. I watched way too many horror movies. Old habits die hard.

Anon

i was about 5 years old. One time i was at Sonny's and i was crying. well, my mom got really mad and sayed that if i dont stop crying, this cheese grater that looked like a bird with a cage for a body, named The Crybaby Eater would come out and eat me and keep me in its cage forever for eeryone to see i was a crybaby. well, i stopped crying and believed that little tale till i was 10!!!!

Rachael Depp

When I was five or six, I used to think there was a monster under our computer desk- I never played any computer games until I was seven!

Lisa

When i was little and my parents would watch scary movies, i was always afraid that they would come out of the TV and drag me back into the movie with them. So i would hide under the covers and try to lay really flat, so they couldn't see me. Of course now, I know this is not true, but I still fall asleep under the covers out of habit.

Patrik

When I was in 1st grade I hated cleaning up the usual mess on the floor at the end of the day so I often thought to myself that it wasn't our fault. Mean "Pigs" lived in the cealing and threw trash and paper scraps on the floor during the day.

Rose

When i was about five i had a really scary dream i thought this charactor from a video game came turned into an aligator and was swimming in my backyard that turned into a lake he ate my flesh off the bone and my shoe. Then i woke up i checked to see if my shoe was still there then i slept with my shoes in my room for about 3 months

Zach

I thought that you could never lay on the opposite side of your bed (feet where head go and head where feet go) because I believe that there was a Alligator that wore a purple jacket and carried a brief case walked down my driveway, and then came into my room and bit my head off. Sad, I know

Corks

When I was little, I always had to have a nightlight on in my room. My parents thought I was just afraid of the dark, but I always had to correct them. It wasn't the DARK I was scared of, it was the SHAPES that moved in the dark, so I had to sleep with the nightlight on so the shapes would go away when they got near the light.

It wasn't until I was older that I realized with the light OFF, there weren't any shapes at all. I still can't sleep with any light on.

Matatuana

DO you know how you look into a light, or into the sun, you see colors when you look away? Well, When I was little I got up early one time (i usually stayed in bed untill someone else got up before me).I sat on the couch and didn't turn the tv on. Why? I was freaking out. I had looked into the sun, or a light previosly, and I saw these colored monsters coming towards me. I was so scared, that I never got out of bed first again.

Spazz

When i was in reception a rumour went round one playtime that there was a monster in our teacher's cupboard, and we were all afraid to go into the classroom after break.

Moomin troll in disguise