My auntie told me if I went to sleep with a smile on my face, God would love me more. I couldn't get to sleep most nights 'cos my facial muscles hurt so much from smiling!
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe when I was 5 that I was special because I couldn't get to sleep until 11pm at night — Carrie
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- 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 a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(:
- My auntie was told by her husband that glacia cherries were made of seaweed, she wouldnt eat them for years. — emma
- When I was a kid I though facial hair on a man is what gave them the deep voice — Adrian Z.