I used to tell my little brother that if he didn't pull the covers right up to his chin at night, the head hunter would come and chop his head off. We were 4 and 5 at the time. Recently at a family gathering some 20 years later I told this story. He stared at me in disbelief and said "you know I can't sleep at night unless the covers are pulled right up to my chin!" Ahh, my work is done.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J
- If you held a buttercup under your chin and got a yellow reflection then you liked butter!— Tilly
- Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.— Rick
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy