As a child at bedtime, I kept my entire body under the covers. Due to monsters, any exposed skin meant certain death. I told my mom we should invent a bed snorkel so i never had to leave the sheets, not even for oxygen.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- I used to believe that undercover cops hid under covers/sheets. — Holly
- I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl
- I used to think that bodily tissues were kleenex sheets that grew in certain parts of your body.Anon
- I used to believe that if you bled to death your body would be flat.— -G
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy