I used to believe that if I slept with my face towards the wall, I would be better able to disguise my terror when the Bad Guy broke into my room. Since he would assume I was still sleeping, he would kill my sister instead of me.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I thought that when you broke a bone, it broke completely off.— gin
- i used to believe that a volcano was an upside-down UFO in disguise— Sally
- i used to believe that my dog was really a cat in disguise trying to get information on the dog empire!— strange and used to be stupid
- I used to believe that eye-lash curlers were eye-ball eating aliens in disguise— Eliza