I always had to have the covers up over my legs before I could go to sleep. That way the monsters couldn't sneak up over the end of the bed and get me at night. As a matter of fact, at age 53, I still can't go to sleep if my feet, if not my legs, aren't entirely covered by a sheet at least.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to believe when I was 5 that I was special because I couldn't get to sleep until 11pm at night — Carrie
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- 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 there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon