When I was young I was taken to see an excellent theatre pantomine of Peter Pan- the performers (who I thought were really the characters) flew impressively around and out from the stage . . . for quite some time following I slept in a freezing bedroom (UK winters) insisting my bedroom window was left wide open every night in case HE came....
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - I used to believe my bedroom closet was actually a time machine.— Carrie
- i used 2 believe when i left my closet door open at
night a skelleton would pop out and wave at me— bex - I used to believe that one of Lady Gaga´s songs goes "bedroom ants" instead of "bad romance"— Anon the III.
- I thought if I left the door open too long, a dog would come from the cupboard in the washroom and eat me
Anon - I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon