I could never sleep with my back to the wall because I thought that Marty Feldman was going to come through it and pull me out onto our roof. And if I slept facing the wall, a one eyed Big Bird would do the same thing. Something about the eyes...
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- When a soldiers went AWOL in the movies, I thought they physically climbed over "A Wall".— D Rumsfeld
- I used to believe that at the end of the universe was a big plywood wall.— matt
- I used to believe that the cool aid man was evil and he'd break through my wall and get me.— tammy