i used to believe that if you kept your mouth open when you slepp that spiders would drop in your mouth and would lay eggs in it. so i never leave my mouth open when i sleep still.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- i used to believe that if you farted out of your mouth, you'd die.— John Deere
- i used to believe that dragonflies would sew your mouth shut.Anon
- i used to believe that drangonfly's would sew your mouth shutAnon