at home

I was always terrified of spiders, and when the lights went out I was convinced that they would crawl up under the sheets and amass at the foot of the bed. So I slept curled up in a tight ball, never straightening my legs for fear they'd get me.

when i was younger i used to think there was an old skiny man with silver skin and huge white eyes that never blinked under my bed that would grab me. to this day i take a running jump to get into bed!

i used to believe our house had secret passages all through it (even though it was a pretty small one-story house). i thought i could use them if i could only figure out how to get into them. i thought the key was a framed panel on the back wall of my closet, but i couldn't figure out how to make it open.

(i've since learned that had to be an opening for dealing with the piping for the bathroom - good i didn't get in.)

I used to think that tigers would chew my limbs off while i was sleeping if any part of them was sticking out from under the bed clothes. So i would tuck the sheets and blankets under my body, and sleep on my back - without moving - all night. This continued residually until i was 28 or so... and now i can occasionally risk letting an arm or leg stick out when its really hot...

I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF I WANKED IN THE SHOWER A MEMBER OF MY FAMILY COULD GET PREGNANT.

I thought that if I put my hand on the drain while the bathtub was draining my fingers would get stuck in there. I assumed that to get me loose, firemen would have to come to my house and chop off my hand. I'm not quite sure why I thought firemmen.

I used to beleive that bidets were something you washed your feet in I still think it is actually practical to do.

When I was a little kid I believed that there always was a monster under my bed who's going to eat my shoes if I left them on the floor. So every night I put my shoes on the table so that the monster could not eat it. Until age of five or so...

When I was younger I was scared to go to the bathroom because I believed that a wolf lived inside my mother's hamper and that if he heard me walk by, he would sprint towards me and eat me. To this day, unfortunately, I'm still deathly afraid of wolves.

I used to love playing on the carpet at the base of the large double glass doors leading out to the patio. One day, I discovered some large coins directly at the bottom of the long white drapes hanging over the clear bright windows. The dark shadows of the coins made me think they were worth plenty. It wasn't until high school that I finally decided (against my mother's wishes) to carefully disect one of those curtain seams and find out for sure just how much money was hidden at every curtain intersection. To my utter dismay, I encountered only large heavy plug nickles to add to my other list of relevant childhood treasures. To be sure, they didn't redeem for what I had encountered at the stored wand of belief.

However, I was delighted to cut open a tube of Stripe toothpaste to encounter just how the stripes emerged all from the same opening of the tube.!! That was pure delight.

My brother made me believe for years that our bathroom was a space ship. We used to close the door and we traveled all arround the universe, he even scared me some times saying that he had problems to come back home...until one day when my mom suddendly opened the door and i saw the floor outside instead of Mars....

When I was five I was terrified that there was a big letter Z under by bed. I had a dream that I looked under my bed, and there was a big, plushy-looking letter Z there, and when I saw it it went, "Zzzzzzzz". Thereafter for a time I was afraid to look under my bed, in case the Z was there and it buzzed at me again.

I read somewhere that you can only see ghosts in mirrors and you can't see vampires in them at all.
This made washing my hands in front of the bathroom mirror at night very tricky as I'd have to stare into the mirror checking for ghost and whip my head around every few seconds to make sure no vampires were sneaking up on me.

i watched to much cartoons because i used to believe if you stuck a piece of metal in a light socket you could see your own bones like an x-ray...it did'nt work!!!

I used to think that the curved pipe under the sink led directly back up to the faucet, so I wouldn't use water to brush my teeth.

i use to believe that the bathroom was where shoes and pants lived!!!! it was scary!!!!