One morning when I was about 6 years old I found a spider in my bed. It had been there all night. From that day until I was about 8 years old, I would have to put pillows around the outside of my bed because I thought that thousands and thousands of spiders would crawl onto my bed and bite me during the night. I got over it though.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was liitle, I used to believe that if a spider would bite me than I would become Spider-Man!!!— IronManxD
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- The sun switches off at night and on again in the morning — Edward
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon