When I was very young, my grandparents bought me a Mother Goose lamp that would read to me at night while I fell asleep. I was convinced that as soon as the light went out and I was asleep, the lamp would attack me and attempt to peck my eyes out. What made me think this I do not know.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- i used to think when i fell asleep spiders would capture me and eat me.— SPIDERMAN
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep in the bathtub I would wake up in the sea.— Brenda
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep lying on my front that my boobs wouldn't grow. And they didn't.— Booey
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon
- when i was young i used to believe that when it was foggy, it was because the clouds were asleep— AdelaidA