at home

You know on the back of the toothpaste, where it says, "Children under 7 should only use a pea-sized amount of toothpaste"? Well, I really couldn't wait till I was 7, and on my 7th birthday, woke up, and I can vividly remember saying to myself, "YES! I can use more than a pea-sized amount of toothpaste!"
I was very strange.

I used to believe that if i left my feet hanging over my bed as as i slept a monster would come and pull my toenails off, because thats what my dad used to tell me when he saw my feet from under the covers.

I would always touch the feathers on my brother's dream catcher by his bed. Soooo soft. One day he told me that if I ever touched it again, my skin would fall off and I'd die.

I believed him P

When I was little I saw a TV program where a fire engine drove by a house, and a bit later the house catched fire. So I thought that your house can only burn if a fire engine first drives by your house.

i used to believe everything had feelings and wanted to be treated exactly as what it was. a chair would be lonely, for example, if someone didn't regularly sit on it. pretty exhausting belief for a kid trying to run around and use everything!

When I was little I always made sure I got out the bath befor I pulled the plug, because I thought you could get sucked down it and into the drain and no one would find you.... but even worse was the thought I might get stuck in the plug and never get out!!!

When I was Little I thought there was a chef under my bed and that if i stuck any body part under ther he would by accedently cut my fingers off, so for the longest time i used too jump far from the bed when i got out

My grandparents used to tell me that there was a man named Mr. Smith who lived upstairs in their attic, and if I made noise I'd wake him up. Naturally I wanted to meet this stranger who lived in their house, but they'd never let me go up there. Now I know that it was just a story to keep the volume down.

i had heard (roughly) the story of pandoras box where by she opened the lid and all the horrible things spread into the world... well... i used to think my closet was pandoras box and that if i left the doors open bad things would happen.... out of habit i still to this day cannot fall asleep with them open!!!!

When I was little, I used to think that the bathtub rested on the back of a great white shark and that when I unplugged the drain, it could swim away, drop me into the ocean, and eat me. Therefore, I always made sure to get out of the bath BEFORE I unplugged it...and I actually still do today.

My grandma has a weird machine in her shed and my dad tells me it is a "little machine" and if you get in it it makes you younger. (if I really believed that I would get in it!)

when i was about six, i visited my friend. in her bathroom, the wallparper had a sweirled design. i was in there, and i could have swown the wallpaper was moving, so i pressed on the wall, and it pushed in a little (my friends house was old, the walls bent sometimes)! so, that night i was convinced if you pushed into the wall, you could teleport to any bathroom. my friend and he mom laughed so hard when i told them their bathroom was a teleporter.

When I was little I used to believe that when you moved house you made a direct swap with the person whose house you were moving into and that they would move into your old house. It took actually moving to be made aware this wan't true

I used to have a fear of taking a shower when I was around 7-8, and when I took one I did it as quickly as possible.

Why?

I believe King Tut's mummified body would fall out of the ceiling and into the bathtub.

However, what I never questioned is what was King Tut doing on my ceiling...

when i was little i used to believe in bed bugs so every night when my mom would say "dont let the bed bugs bite?" i would get out a shoe from under my bed and hold it just in case until i fell asleep!

When I was a child, I used to be very careful when brushing my teeth because I thought the water that went down the drain came back up throught the faucet and therefore, there was a limited supply that could run out.

I was always terrified of my grandparents basement. Especially because my grandpa told me that a big bear lived down there. Every time we'd go down there, I remeber hiding behind my Mom. I knew she'd be safe against any bear! ;)

I always hated taking baths when I was younger, because I believed the reflections and the light rays in the tub meant that there were sharks around waiting to eat me.