I used to think that tigers would chew my limbs off while i was sleeping if any part of them was sticking out from under the bed clothes. So i would tuck the sheets and blankets under my body, and sleep on my back - without moving - all night. This continued residually until i was 28 or so... and now i can occasionally risk letting an arm or leg stick out when its really hot...
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- 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
- I used to think that bodily tissues were kleenex sheets that grew in certain parts of your body.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- i used to believe that tha if I had any body part stisking out of the bed it would get me— strait sleeper
- I used to believe that lions married tigers. Anon