When I was about six, I used to believe that when I got out of bed in the night to go to the bathroom that if I didn't get back to bed as quickly as possible, I would be attacked by monsters hiding in the shadows. I'm 23 now and it's still a big problem when I'm home alone.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the shadows on the moon were actually spacemen casting shadows on the ground.— Perry
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- I used to believe that realistic looking toys could actually see. But only the shadows of things.— Micah Dunlap
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.— Marie M