When I was a kid and got up in middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I believed that I had to be out of the bathroom before the toilet finished flushing or the room would turn into an elevator and would go down into the earth and trap me there forever.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- When I was little, I believed that if I didn't go to the bathroom quick enough, I would actually explode.— Coco S.
- I used to think if you didnt get up before flushing the toilet would eat you...Anon
- i used to think when it started raining it was god flushing the toilet— edel
- I was certain that rain was created by God having a pee and flushing his huge toilet above us— Emma H