at home

I used to believe…

that mice lived in my pillow,at night i could hear them moving about ,i laid very still so they wouldnt know i was there ,i told my mom and she took me to the doctors and i had to tell him about the mice.

My mom told me to use "elbow grease" when I cleaned. I looked for it in the cleaning cabinet but never did find it.

My mom also told me that my dad had bought a car that was "a lemon." I told her that even though I was just a kid I knew the difference.

I used to believe that you could get washed down the drain when you took a shower, and I also briefly believed that you could get bit by an alligator who had been flushed when you used the toilet. I'd like to thank my older brothers for sharing that info with me :P

When I was around 4 or 5, my mom told me that if I didn't brush my teeth, pill bigs (or roly polies) would enter my mouth at night. She caught me standing in the bathtub brushing my teeth in my sleep after that.

my mum used to tell me that if i didn't brush my teeth little men would come and break my teeth with hammers. i remember being really worried in case i hadn't brushed properly!

When I was six, I believed that someone's amputated arm was under my covers at the bottom of the bed. I was sure that it would grab me around the ankles and drag me off some where. I slept with my knees bent and tucked under my chin for over a year.

When i was four years old, I asked my Dad why the house was being pebble-dashed. He told me that it was so that if the world ended, our house wouldn't fall down. I spent my entire childhood living in fear of Armageddon from that moment on.

I used to wake in the middle of the night believing that there were coyotes under my bed waiting to get me if I got out of bed. I was to scared to get up and run downstairs to my parents room.

My dad was sewing up a hole in one of my socks (favourite pair at the time) and when he had finished he told me he had sewn the sock onto his hand and couldn't get it off and that he would have to walk around with my sock on his hand for the rest of his life. I was most upset as it was my favourite sock and I wanted it back!

My Grandma and Grandma used to have this huge yard with great big trees at the end. One day my sister and I were playing in the yard and got a bit too close to the trees at the end. All of a sudden I froze because what was really electrical outlets attached to the trees looked like eyes.

My sister and I ran like heck back to my Grandparents house...yelling for them to come quick..since the trees were watching us.

My Mom told it us it was because we got too close to the road...and the trees could catch us if we got closer!!

Never did we EVER go that close to the road again!!

I used to believe that the shadows on my ceiling would congregate during the night to form this dangerous shadow-creature named “The Beam”. I would always have to sleep with the light on because the Beam would get me if I didn’t have the light on.

I used to believe a lion lived under my bed (but only after dark of course)and as I didn't have a bedside lamp I had to switch the light off at the doorway to my room and then try to jump to my bed ( which was against the opposite wall) the second I turned the light off. My heart would be in my mouth and I would have to lie there for some time to calm down before I could even think of going to sleep. I think the lion still lives there.....BUT I DON"T.

Because my mum used to ask me to put my dirty washing on the landing outside my bedroom, I believed for many years that it was actually the landing that washed my clothes!

I used to have to put the plug in the bath when I was having a shower because I thought spiders would come up through the plughole. I think I'd just seen Arachnophobia on TV or something...

When I was six or seven, I heard a radio commercial about drug addicts. I thought the commercial meant that these were people that lived in "attics." I became convinced that people we didn't know were secretly living in our attic. For several years I wouldn't dare go in our attic by myself.

When I was little and I went to sleep everynight I used to think their were snakes and spiders at the end of my feet so I used to scrunch my legs up as high as I could and sleep in a tiny ball