When i was a kid, I used to believe that the rhyme- Night Night don't let the bed bugs bite, meant that in he night, if you didnt go to sleep, then giant bugs made of beds would come and bite you!!! it used to scare the C**P outta me!!
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive if a bug were to bite you, you would become a giant bug.Anon
- I made my bed everyday as a kid because I believed that if I didn't then bugs would get in it.Anon
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon
- I used to believe when I was 5 that I was special because I couldn't get to sleep until 11pm at night — Carrie
- I, to this day, believe that when I can't sleep at night it means I'm awake in someone else's dreams... — Turner