When I was little, my mom told me that bugs and mosquitos try to get into your ear and your ear canal when you go to sleep, so naturally, I slept with a pillow below me and a pillow above me. I got two small pillows, the type that babies sleep on, and still use them to this day.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

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 believed that when I went to sleep my heart took a rest too, and didn't pump at all while I slept.— Lara
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- I used to believe in Perez mause when my teeth fall, I put them under the pillow to see what happened— AyrtonZ01
- My sister used to sing Kylie's "cheese on my pillow", somehow tears works better.— Tom
- when I was little I believed that if I put a white stone under the pillow with my tooth I make more moneyAnon