I used to believe that it was very likely that I would die in my sleep while I was still a kid. I thought that just the act of sleeping was enough to cause a person death.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe that anonymous was a person, and I thought, "Gee, this person writes a LOT of poems!"— Katie Albano
- I thought hills were dragons sleeping under the grassAnon
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli