When I was so young that I was still being read to at bedtime, my parents were working their way through the wonderful book "Robinson Caruso" when I began having some heavy-duty nightmares. When my parents asked me what was wrong, I finally asked, "Robinson Caruso didn't really kill and eat a little kid, did he?" When I found out we were talking about a young goat, the nightmares stopped...
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think Timmy Mallet was Tony Robinson.— Tom
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- eating cheese before bed gives you nightmaresAnon
- I used to believe that a dream catcher really made nightmares go away.
— WOLVERINEfLASH14 - I used to believe that eating chicken skin will give me nightmares.— zihui
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo