sleeping

I used to believe that when you were asleep, you were really dead. Every time I heard about something "awaking from the dead", I was like, "so?! I do it every morning!"

Whiskers

Before falling asleep, when I heard my blood pounding in my ears as I lay my head on my pillow, I thought it was the sound of an army of nightmares walking under my pillow.

Yann

When I was younger, I thought that when I went to bed at night, everyone else in my part of the world went to bed too, and every public place and road would be completely deserted.

Peter

I believed that by falling asleep flat on my back my heart would stay in the middle (where it belonged) and if I slept on either side my heart would fall over there, a disaster!

Frances Louise

I use to believe that when you went to sleep you left you body and went to stand before God. He would ask you questions and give you instructions then you were returned to your bed. Of course when you woke up in the morning your had no memory of the meeting.

Angie

When I was little someone once told me that when you sleep your body became invisible. So If was asleep and their body was still there, I always thought either they were just pretending to be asleep or they weren't into a deep sleep yet.

Anon

About 4 years ago, I watched a freaky movie about small creatures that sucked the air out of you while you were sleeping. They stood on your chests, took deep breaths, and boom, you're dead.
I was so mortified that for the following year, I never slept on my back, face up.

Jennie

For years and years I used to believe that when you fell asleep, you died and that a new you inherited your body and all your memories. I was so scared to go to sleep on Christmas Eve and the night before my birthday because I thought it would actually be the new me who got to experience the day rather than the me that I was that particular day. I'd try to stay awake all night and outsmart the new me so I could experience a longer lifetime than other people and so I wouldn't lose Christmas or my birthday to whoever took over my body.

Anon

Once my mom told me that I woke up one night screaming "bloody murder". I didn't know that saying, so I thought I literally was yelling "bloody murder". I told all my friends at school what I screamed.

JD

Since I would always hear that getting a good nights sleep would make you grow, I thought that little elves would come into your room while sleeping, chop off you foot, and snap in another piece of ankle liek a Lego. It wasn't until later that I realized that if this was true people would have very long ankles.

Anon

My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes.

Anon

When I was little I used to think if I didn't fall asleep with my face facing the wall then a fire or burglary would happen at night.

anon

When I was little, I though death was going to sleep and never waking up, so I was terrified of having a nightmare and not waking up.

Anon

When I was younger, I thought that when people were sleeping at night, their heart stopped for a while to rest, and then in the morning, it started beating again, so we could open our eyes. One morning, when my mum told me i had to wake up to go to school and i should hurry up, I told her that I'm waiting for my heart to start beating.....

trecool_Girl

I believed that dreaming involved sinking through my mattress and into an ever-changing fantasy world under my bed. This is due to one dream I vividly remembered as a child that began with a 3rd-person perspective of my body falling through my bed and into another world. While awake, I would often search under my bed for this world.

Pat

When I was about 5 or 6 I used to believe that my mother never slept. I thought she was a superwoman. I used to think this because when I went to bed at night, she stayed up late doing housework tasks like ironing, cooking or sewing. And when I got up in the morning, she was already up with breakfast ready on the table. That was crazy! I remember thinking, 'how does she do it?' Also she never rested on the sofa, so I was worried about her. I was always wondering why my father and I slept every night but she didn't. Finally I realized the truth; she did lots of things during the day but she did sleep at night.

Maria (Artana)

once, when declaring to my parents that i was going to stay up all night long, i was informed that morning would never come unless everyone on earth went to sleep. only then would the sun come up again. i fell asleep waiting to see if it was true.

jamie

My sister Liz used to tell me that when you went to sleep at night, little worms would crawl out of your body, and then crawl back INTO your body before you woke up and got out of bed in the morning. I was so worried that some of them might get stuck or lost in the sheets during the night. And what if I had to suddenly jump up out of bed in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom ? How would all those little worms get back into then?

Rose Anne

I woke up once from a bad nightmare, I was facing the wall. For a long time I believed I only had nightmares if I slept facing the wall.

Anon

When I was a child (obviously) I believed whatever thought I had just before falling asleep would be what I dreamt about. I used to lie awake for hours, thinking about Sea World...

Felix