Sometimes when I was little I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and I would be walking back from the bathroom in the dark, and I was totally afraid that some burglar had broken into my house, and that the burglar just happened to have a huge vicious dog with him, and that the dog was going to come running up the stairs and attack me at any second. It took me years to be able to go down the hallway in the dark without running!
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When I first used conditioner for my hair, I believed that I had to put it on first, then the shampoo.
I used to believe that there was a very angry lady inside the vacuum cleaner, and when it was turned on, she screamed and screamed. She was angry because we were making her eat the dirt on the floor.
I refused to vacuum for a long time, opting instead to "sweep." Hey, it got me out of vacuuming!
when my brother was like 6, my older sister and i told him that if he didnt wear socks to bed this old man would come and eat your toes off. he believed us and wouldnt go near the egde of his bed at night and always worer socks. then my mom found out and grounded me and my sister..
when i was little, my dad used to wash my hair, and he used to joke about shampoo being "burning eye soap" and that it would melt down my eyeballs if it got in my eyes. to this day i refuse to let my dad come near me with any soap of any type.
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my friend used to think there was bologny under the driveway because there was a bump in it that made the car bounce.
When I was little, my sister, my cousin and me would do everythnig together. There used to be a sock hanging from our grandparenrs door. I never figured out why. We used to get scared of it because we thought it was some evil spirit or somethnig. I'm not really sure when we found out it was just a regular sock.
My mom had told me since I was little not to flush the toilet while someone was in the shower. It was because when you did, it made the shower water cold. When I was 5, I accidentally flushed it because I forgot that my brother was in the shower. I started crying and my mom ran in the bathroom and asked me what was wrong. I told her that I flushed the toilet, and now all the pee was going to shower down on my brother. She set me straight, and I'm glad!
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When i was about 3 i thought that if i jumped on the bed the bed would crash through to the basement because of a story my babysitter read to me.
I used to believe when you moved, you traded houses with the person that wanted to move into your house. You also kept all their possesions. So i felt sorry for my cousin who moved into a smaller house than she was in before becuase i believed she has gotten ripped off.
When I was little, I used to think that Indians lived under my bed and they would drag me under there if I got too close to the side of the bed, so I would leap on and off the bed so I wouldnt get near the edge... I believed this till I was about 7 actaully
I got over this when i was about 10 but it still bothers me thinking about it. When i would go to bed sometimes i would get hot and hang my hand or foot over the side of the bed out from under the covers, and i used to think something would come and grab either my hand or foot so i stoped doing that. And like i said it still bothers me now.
When I was little I had a switch in my bathroom that turned on a fan for ventilation. I used to believe that this fan was meant to let oxygen get into the room, and I would suffocate if I didn't turn it on.
When i was in first grade someone told me that if I turned of the light and said black sheep bloddy marry 10 times then a lady would jump out of the mirror and chop my head off. I was sooo scared of that, I was scared of mirrors for a long time!
when i was little i used to believe that there were people in the walls of my bathroom so when you poop you had to talk to them or they would kill you. i also used to think that if you didnt treat your toys right they would kill you in your sleep.
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I used to believe that when my mom said that I could "drown" in the bathtub, it meant that I would go down the drain.
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I used to be afraid of placing mirrors on the floor because I thought you could accidently fall into the hole it seemed produce.
i am still afraid of the webster duster, big, thick fluffy monster that will eat you alive
I used to (and still to this day) have this unnatural fear that Hotel mirrors are one-way mirrors containing hidden cameras on the other side and that someone is watching me. I have a very hard time undressing in front of hotel mirrors. Sometimes I even talk to them just in case someone is listening! Strange...
as a kid whenever i went into my parents giant bed, i used to think that at the foot of the bed, there was an alligator. and if you put your feet far enough under the covers, the alligator would bite off your feet. so now i sleep with my legs curled up.