As I child each night before I went to sleep I would pack all my stuffed animals under my comforter. I thought that if someone broke into my house and tried to attack me, the animals would come to life and protect me. And if that failed I could convince te attacker that it was a huge scary dog.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my stuffed animals would come alive at night to protect me.— Julie
- I used to believe that all my stuffed animals would come to life at night.— Carrie
- If someone broke into my house at night my ninja turtles would come to life to protect me.— blip
- I used to believe that when we went to bed at night, all the animals in our house talked to each other. Anon
- I used to believe that stuffed animals had blood in them as well as stuffing. Anon
- I used to believe that after I cut my stuffed animals hair that it really grew back! — Kristy