When I was elementary school aged I was afraid to fall to sleep. I thought that going to sleep was actually a painful process, but that you didn't remember it when you woke up in the morning (kind of like the way you don't always remember dreams). Even now I sometimes wonder how I would ever know if I was right or not...
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I, to this day, believe that when I can't sleep at night it means I'm awake in someone else's dreams... — Turner
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to think that dreams were events that really happened, I just couldn't remember them when I was awake.— Warren
- when i was a kid, i used to think that if i didn't fall asleep, morning wouldn't comeAnon
- I use to believe that teachers would live at school and sleep under there desks :) lol— Stephanie