when I was about 6 thanks to my evil big sister i believed that when you went to bed all the little bed bugs come out and collect your skin then take it to a giant bed bug that lived in the middle of the bed and when it got big enough it burst out and ate you. I remember sleeping curled up on my pillow until the age of 9!
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- I believed that Santa Clause lived on the moon. I mean how else could he see you when you was sleeping? — danger101
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- I used to beleive that the computer bugs were real creatures that lived in your pc and ate away at it.— BoBo
- My sister used to sing Kylie's "cheese on my pillow", somehow tears works better.— Tom
- I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.Anon