When I was 5, my father casually told me as I was getting into bed about someone who had worn their socks to bed: Their feet had gotten so hot, they unknowingly bit their toes off in the middle of the night. Rest assured, that story stuck with me, and thereafter I never forgot to take my socks off before going to bed.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail