I used to believe that if i turned the light off, and spent too much time dawdling to get to my bed, or if i spent too much time under my bed, spiders would come and rip my legs off (this was AFTER i'd watched the movie Arachnophobia)
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming— Amy
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I used to think if you got a parking ticket, you spent the rest of your life in jail!— Dixie Chicks Fan
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather