I used to belive that goats were watching me in the window at night when I went to bed. After I went to sleep, they would jump in my window and puppets would dance around my room while the goats ate my socks and that is why I could never find the matches to any of my socks.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves