When I was 4 my dad died. In trying to explain what death was my granny told me it's like going to sleep and never waking up. I thought if I went to sleep he would come get me and then I'd never wake up either.
I'm 37 and I'm still afraid to sleep.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- 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
- 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*
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- 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