When I was younger and wouldnt go to sleep, my mam used to tell me that the 'Sandman' would come and rub sand in my eyes to make me go to sleep. I imagined him wearing a tweed jacket and matching flat cap, with a big brown sack & weird skin...
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- I used to think that the sleep in my eyes at the breakfast table were toast crumbs.— crawford
- i used to think when you sleep your eyes turened round to watch performances in your head— rasverone
- I used to believe that when I went to sleep, my Barbie dolls would make out and plot to kill me.— ClaireRat
- I used to believe getting the sack involved being put into a cloth sack.— Wangchuk
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon