From when I was maybe six, I slept facing the door because I was scared someone ( or something) might come in and take me away.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to think that whatever direction I was facing was north.Anon
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- Abba - Waterloo
"Portaloo
Finally facing my Portaloo..."— Santa Puncher - i used to believe you slept for 100 hours every night.— skye-ness
- i used to believe that if you slept with cats that they would eat your soul and you would die!!Anon