When I was little I had this idea that if I dream about people maybe someone was dreaming of me and everything I was doing was just a part of their dream. I was terrified that the person would wake up and I would disappear.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I uesd to believe that the world was just someones dream and that when they woke up we would all disappear.— tigga
- I used to think that life was all a dream and one day i would wake up like a 75 year old woman.( who knows?)— 8 with wrinkles
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos
- I used to believe that people dream because they have little TV screens on the inside of their eyelids. — Ingrid
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to think life was a dream and I was in heavenAnon