I use to believe that you could pry open your eyelids and say Its a nightmare to stop having a nightmare.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I pushed down on my upper eyelids too much, my eyes would pop out.— I Still Don't Touch My Eyelids
- When i was very small i used to beleive that your eyelids would freeze if you let the wind get into them.— Wind girl
- I used to believe that people dream because they have little TV screens on the inside of their eyelids. — Ingrid
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali