when i was about 7 my parents went to a funeral. i asked my mom how the person died. she told me that he threw up in his sleep and choked to death. i was terrified to sleep after this and for years everytime i felt sick to my stomach i was certain i wouldn't make it through the night.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon