At the age of 3 I believed in the "doorknob people". I could see an evil, grinning "face" in the doorknob at night with the way the light reflected off the knob & surrounding area and I thought they were watching me. I thought they would come "get" me at night when I was sleeping, but there were two ways to keep them away. (1) If you pretended to be dead, they'd leave you alone. (2) If you made use of --*ahem*-- autoerotic practices (naturally I didn't have a word for this at age 3!!) it would form a protective shield around you that they could not break through. I used both methods routinely at that age. ;-)
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- 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 I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I always thought the song Blinded by the light went "Wrapped up like a dousche, another runner in the night"— Dawn
- I belived that santa came every night to se if i was sleeping— david
- I used to believe that towels were sleeping ghosts, and at night they would come out and get you— bajd
- I used to believe my dolls would come to life at night and have a party while i was sleeping. — phil(: