I used to think that the only way to get rid of the monsters at night was to imagine them away. I would imagine them leaving my house and going down the road, and if I lost track of the route I had to start over. When I figured they were far enough away, I could stop.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- I used to believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.— Anonymous Whistleblower