once when i was around 6 my sister was babysiting me, and i wouldn't go to sleep. Finally, she told me that if i didn't behave the police would come and make me sleep in the jail cells, i believed her, 2
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- my mum told me when i was 11 if i swore the police would take me to jail. — tg in blue
- I'm deaf in one ear. Until I was 7 I believed that if I didn't sleep on my good ear, dinosaurs would eat me.Anon
- I used to believed that when I went to sleep my heart took a rest too, and didn't pump at all while I slept.— Lara
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- I used to believe that when I went to sleep, my Barbie dolls would make out and plot to kill me.— ClaireRat