Up until age eight, I thought that nightmares always took place in your room next to your bed. One time I was talking to my mother and my friend and I prefaced a thought with, "You know how nightmares always appear on the side of your bed?" and they both looked at me like I was insane.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- eating cheese before bed gives you nightmaresAnon
- I used to believe that a dream catcher really made nightmares go away.
— WOLVERINEfLASH14 - I used to believe that eating chicken skin will give me nightmares.— zihui
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- Before I went to a planetarium for the first time, I thought it was just a room full of plants. Anon