I used to believe that a tiger would attack me in the middle of the night, so I always slept with my back to the wall. I also used to believe that vampires would come into my room in the middle of the night, so I always slept with a bathrobe on and the collar rolled up over my neck.
A childhood belief about vampires

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- i used to believe you slept for 100 hours every night.— skye-ness
- I used to think teachers lived at school, and slept there at night.— Stephanie
- I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- I used to think a tiger was a female and a lion was a male... until I remembered Tony the Tiger.— Alysia