When my parents told me "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite", i use to believe if I kicked my feet really really hard in bed, they would all crawl/fall down to the end of the bed, and since the end of the bed was so cold, they would freeze, so i would be safe.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- My mom told me that if you suck your thumb, wourms would crawl up out of the ground and eat it up!— Kat
- When I was little I swallowed an ice cube and thought I was going to freeze.
— Squirrel 1254 - I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl