When i was little i always thought that when you went to sleep you didn't breathe. Once, i was watching tv, and my mom fell asleep on the couch, i heard her breathing, looked at her, saw she was asleep and totally freaked out. At first i thought she was just pretending to sleep :D
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep lying on my front that my boobs wouldn't grow. And they didn't.— Booey
- i used to think when i fell asleep spiders would capture me and eat me.— SPIDERMAN
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep in the bathtub I would wake up in the sea.— Brenda
- when i was a kid, i used to think that if i didn't fall asleep, morning wouldn't comeAnon
- I used to believe that if you didn't go to sleep, the sun would never come up.— terri
- When I was ten, I used to believe that the horses didn't sleep.— Jared