When I was younger my parents would always let me read in bed for a little bit, then come to tuck me in. I always believed that at the exact moment that they shut the door behind them, when the lights were out and I was supposed to be falling asleep, my head had to be under the covers. I thought that everything bad in the world: ghosts, monsters, dead bodies, etc. were let out of their daytime confinements at that exact moment. This fear of that exact moment continued from the time I was five to age 10...
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I thought I was such a lucky and special kid, because I was born on the exact same day as my birthday.— ricolarno
- I used to believe that you died when you turned 100, the exact second.— Tianne
- I thought that Tommy Lee (the singer) and Tommy Lee Jones(the actor) were the same exact person.— Glowworm
- Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.— Sheila
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon