When I was younger, I wa scared to death to get out of bed during the night because I thought gravity turned off with the sun and you would just float away. I always made sure to go to the bathroom before bed.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that until gravity was invented, people used to just float around!— Meg
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- I thought if someone hadn't passed the Law of Gravity, we would all be floating around in space.— Trudee