my first bad dream was about this big scary-ass cloud of smoke that came into my room to get me. When I told my parents in the morning they told me not to worry it was just a nightmare. For years I thought that nightmares were scary-ass clouds of smoke that occasionally came into your room and got you.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- When I was young, I thought that the smoke that jets leave behind them was how clouds were formed. — Rebecca
- I used to believe that clouds came from the smoke that came from the factories. — Anela
- I used to think that clouds were caused by cigarette smoke— Monkey Dave
- i use to think that the smoke that comes out of factories was how clouds were made.— Kyndra S.