I use to believe that when you went to sleep you left you body and went to stand before God. He would ask you questions and give you instructions then you were returned to your bed. Of course when you woke up in the morning your had no memory of the meeting.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- When I was about 6 or 7, I had an imaginary friend, who left for ice-cream one night. He never returned.— His name was Jimmy
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked— sext4eva