I believed that as a child you should always sleep with your pets. My mother only let me have pet worms, slugs or snails. I let them out of the jar to sleep with me every night...but sometimes I rolled over them. I would wake up in the morning thinking that they had crawled back home.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon
- I used to believe that my mother didn't sleep and that she was a super hero!— AntoineBoom