When I was about 7, I started to believe that if I went to sleep on my back with my hands folded over my stomach (like the traditional body in a coffin pose) that God would think I was dead and snatch me away to Heaven. I never slept on my back again just in case I put my hands like that. I got into such a habit that I still can never sleep on my back.
A childhood belief about people
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 believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha