My parents had some carved wooden figures that my brother bought them in Korea - they were an old Korean man and woman, both with bizarrely carved faces and carrying big walking sticks. My sister convinced me that when I went to sleep at night, they came alive and beat me over the head with their little sticks.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- I watched a Michael Jackson music video with my brother, and we were convinced he was a woman.— Adrian
- I used to believe my parents were brother and sister, and that everybody's parents were brother and sister.— Rachael
- First I believed that my parents were brother and sister. Then I thought that my dad was also my mums dad. — Rainbow