When I was very small I used to beleive that at the moment you start to fall asleep you actually are falling "up". As if your spirit is ripped from your body every night, I would hold on to the covers for dear life and if I started to drift I would jerk myself awake.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it
- i used to beleive that my toys came alive when i went asleepAnon
- I used to beleive that a straw would float in soda because a little invisible elf would hold it up.— Mike
- When I was a child i used to believe that if i did not fall asleep an elf would come for me Anon
- I used to beleive that (like your teeth do) your lips would fall off so new ones could grow.— Queen Ohla Quads
- I used to think that when my arm would fall asleep that it was raining inside my armAnon