When my sister and I were little, our foster mother used to get us to settle down by saying, "Let's see who can get to sleep first!" We bought it, quieted down, and got busy getting to sleep.
How would we have known who won? Of course, by morning, we had forgotten the whole thing.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to believe that my mother didn't sleep and that she was a super hero!— AntoineBoom
- I used to believe that the only way to get to the next day was to go to sleep.— C.C.
- When I was little, I used to believe that I could fly in my sleep Anon
- I used to believe that if you didn't go to sleep, the sun would never come up.— terri