As a child I used to believe that at Midnight is when the monsters came out. My brother and I had to be in bed AND asleep by then, or else! I do not know where I got this belief (perhaps from a movie), but I pretty much lived it until high school.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to believe that all my barbies would come alive at midnight while i was asleep — stephanie
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- When I was a child, I used to think that one day my brother and I would be in the same grade at school.— Alexis Yahir López
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon
- I used to think that a clown lived under my bed and tried to eat me while i was asleepAnon