When I was about 4, I would always make a wall of pillows around my bed leaning against the bed frame to protect myself from monsters. I had one pillow with my name stitched in it which I had to throw off my bed before I went to sleep because it acted as a labeling sign like the ones at grocery stores. If I didn't take it off, I was sure the monsters would eat me.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that princesses were make-believe like monsters, dragons, and fairies.Anon
- There ARE monsters under the bed but they won't eat you so long as you don"t get out of bed before 7am.— Sarah
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to wonder why they didn't fix the Leaning Tower Of Pisa. Weren't they embarrassed that it was crooked?— Bootlebat
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie