When I was young I thought that if you were to lie on your back, perfectly straight, with your arms folded in an "x" over your chest and went to sleep that way you would die.
A childhood belief about people
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 think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- 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 believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.— Anonymous Whistleblower