As I child I was convinced that if I hid under the bed covers, it would help to protect me from the variety of things that I thought wanted to 'get' me, one of whom as the Elephant Man who I believed lived in my wardrobe. I spent many a sleepless and sweaty night trying in vain to scream to wake my parents.
My dad, being a dentist, had a skull from his Uni days but this had to be put in the attic to calm me down. My older sisters often played on my fears and one night, after smearing soap thickly on her face (and leaving the area round her eyes soap-free to look like dark sockets) came into my room moaning 'Davina, Davina, the skull's coming to get you'. I was absolutely hysterical thinking I was gonna die and my sisters got the biggest bollocking.
A childhood belief about in my closet
others believed things like this
- my parents used to tell me and my sisters that if we ate our vegtables our eyes would turn green..— alex t
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- I believed that the pictures on my nighties came alive at night and played in my room while i was asleep!!Anon
- I believed that burglars ate soap & lipstick— Karen
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb