I had this belief that if I slept with any space between the wall and me, a monster (usually an alien or Dracula,) would come up from the crack between the wall and the bed and attack me. I therefore slept crammed back against the wall. I still do. I also never dared to sleep with my wrists up, in case someone came and slashed them while I slept. I never moved my feet in case giant spiders were in the foot of my bed. I never slept on my left side, in case aliens came climbing through the window and zapped me up to their mothership. Have I could have prevented this by always sleeping on my right side, I still dont know. But it must have worked, cause I havent been zapped up yet. I had all in all many rules and rituals when it came to sleeping in my bed.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- I used to belive that employees who worked at 24/7 shops lived there and never slept!(they worked 24/7)— tilly Waukesha WI
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon