I believed that while I slept, there was a man who lived in the light fixture in the ceiling who wore a pith helmet, and if I slept on my back and kept my mouth open, he would throw oranges in my mouth, which would not have been good.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I used to believe that little men (or women) slept & went to work in every traffic light — Kelly bulanek
- I used to think teachers lived at school, and slept there at night.— Stephanie
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon
- I used to think that teachers lived in school and they slept there and just woke up to teach us.— tammy