When I was a child, my father told me that sleeping with my socks on would make my feet fall off. I still don't sleep with socks on.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy