I learned the prayer "Now I lay me down to sleep..." to say at bed time, but the line "If I should die before I wake" disturbed me greatly and I was convinced I might die before I woke, so I started trying to sleep as stiff and strait with my arms at my side like the dead.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon