When my head was on my pillow at night and in the morning, I used to hear a steady, constant, heavy pounding. I was always afraid to go to sleep at night or get out of bed in the morning because I had believed it was an evil giant/monster/dinosaur stomping it's way towards our house to kill us all, until my dad finally told me it was just my heart beating.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little I believed that a night a monster will came and kill me.❤️🥺— @natalia_rd_
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- The sun switches off at night and on again in the morning — Edward
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- Boogers came from magical booger fairies that mined them over night and put them in your nose in the morning.— Vivian
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily