I used to think that to truly be safe from vampires while you slept you had to sleep on your back with your arms crossed neatly over your chest. That way, if they pulled back the covers they would think that you were already undead and leave you alone.
A childhood belief about vampires
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- When I was a child, I used to believe that teachers never leave school and slept in the chairs.— Majo
- 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 always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon