My grandmother told me if I went to sleep with my socks on, I would wake up blind. One night it got too cold and I took the risk.
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon