I used to believe that the later you stayed up, the more sleep you got. I thought time would stop and count backwards from the time you went to sleep. I didn't understand the 24 hour thing.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I used to believe that if you didn't go to sleep, the sun would never come up.— terri
- When I was ten, I used to believe that the horses didn't sleep.— Jared
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- I used to believe that my mother didn't sleep and that she was a super hero!— AntoineBoom