When I was very young I used to believe that when I went to bed at night, the thumping (my heartbeat) I would hear against my pillow was an army marching outside.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the salvation army was an actual army.Anon
- At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!— delana
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson
- Strangers in the night, exchanging glasses...
well I was only young at the time!— ..maz.. - My young daughter thought that night came after the trees ate all the sunlight.— Bruce
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird