I used to believe that if I didn't sleep on my back, then wicked elves would climb onto my bottom. I remember lying there imagining them with ladders and catapults climbing onto me. When I was about 9, I was convinced I was a vampire and I made a cardboard coffin and slept in it.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel
- 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 ear wigs would climb in your ears while you slept and make you go mad— troy
- 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
- I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy