Up till I was 10, I used to think that the shadow of the tree next to my bedroom window, at night, was a big bat watching me. I always tried to look in the daylight for it's hideout. Needless to say I never found it.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - I thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon
- Bouncing on my bed and watching houses through the window I was sure they were literally bouncing with me.Anon
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that I could outrun my own shadow!— Serge
- I used to believe my shadow was chasing me whenever I ran— Rose