I shared a room with my little sister, and mum told us to have a competition to see who could go to sleep first. I told my sister that I would know when she was asleep, because at the instant a person falls aslepp, they making a mooing noise like a cow. For months afterwards, she made this noise every night, to try and trick me into thinking she'd fallen asleep before me!
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was the noise the stars made when they sparkled. — Jane
- I believed that the pictures on my nighties came alive at night and played in my room while i was asleep!!Anon
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"— Lise
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi