my uncle used to tell me when i was little and stayed at my grandma's that if i didn't wash my hands before i went to bed, little germ monsters would come and eat me alive, and all that would be left of me in the morning would be a pile of bones. i was so terrified of this that i wouldn't be able to sleep and have nightmares about little germs coming and devouring me in my sleep! i believe this until i was like 10!
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*