I used to believe there were creatures living in my pillow called snarlies that made the tangles in my hair while I was sleeping. My parents told me this.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- My parents said that gnomes tied knots in my hair while I was sleeping. I had insomnia for years.— Daria
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- My mom called the dust under my bed kitties i believed there was kitties living under my bed.— Kathy
- When I was a little boy, I thought that hair was made out of peanut butter.Anon