When I turned 10 my parents gave me their old bed and got a new one. The bed was a double so there was room for 2 people. 1 night i went to bed and i woke up with someone that i didnt know beside me (a younger cousin i'd never seen) and i was terrified. I began to believe that if i went to bed with an empty space beside me id wake up with a dead person next to me(I dont know how i got that idea). So i used to sleep on 1 side of the bed and cover the other side with pillows so there was no chance id wake up next to anyone.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- when i was little, my mom told me if you ate to much salt, you'd wake up turned into a lamb. — Kristina