make-believe

I used to believe…

When I was a little girl I had a reaccuring nightmare of a vampire who bit you and gave you cat-scratch fever, so for the longest time I believed that the only way I was safe to go asleep was if there was a blanket over my neck. The rest of my body it was okay to not cover but my neck just HAD to be covered. As if that was the only place where a vampire could bite me.

I guess you could say my family has a history of imaginary friends. My uncle had an imaginary friend named Georgie. HIs mom always had to set him a place at dinner. Then one day Georgie disappeared. Apparently, Georgie moved to Texas. His son had imaginary friends, the Rugrats. Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil went everywhere with him. My sister always used to play with two imaginary friends. One was named Sharon, the second had more of an androgenous name - Johnafer. That would be a combination of John and Jennifer. We never knew if it was a boy or a girl.

I used to believe…

In the first grade during St. Patrick's Day, my teacher put fake green footprints on the ground and told us that a leprechaun came in our classroom overnight. We even set up a leprechaun trap. I was so nervous because I actually believe that we were going to see a live leprechaun!

It's hard to believe that I was seven years old when I believed this and not younger :p.

I used to believe…

When i was young(i mean real young) i tot that aliens would beam down pretty girls on to ur bed at night(not for any bed-side activities mind you). So i always slept with my body over the edge of one side of the bed.

I can tell you now that it wasn't the most comfortable nights of my life.

Then about a year later, i had this notion that perhaps nothing happened because they wanted to send down 2 girls but there wasn't any room on my bed so i began to sleep even further off the edge. lol.

Thankfully, i gave up any hope of getting "them" and began to sleep normally again.

i live next to a house that only has one window ever open, and its right next to my bedroom.when i was younger i thought it was a ghost stalker, its actually a flowerpot in my neighbors bathroom

I heard the story of blood mary just after my 15th birthday. So I wanted to try it out but got scared. I convinced one of my friends to do it first and nothing happened. So I went to try it. As soon as I finished saying Bloody Mary I felt a cold breeze coem through my window. I screamed and ran for the door but tripped. I still won't go in a bathroom alone.

I used to believe…

When i went on long car journeys with my parents i would always have a selection of invisible friends to keep me company, They would run super fast to keep up with the car (they were not alowed in the car!) and id have nice long chats with them about how there day had been and stuff. When i'd reached a certain age, i figured that i was to old to have invisible friends anymore so on the next long car journey every single invisible pal i ever had lined up to wave good bye to me...it was a 4 hour long drive...and a very long prossesion of invisible people, but i waved to all of them and was very touched that they'd come to say good bye!

I used to think that if you flushed the toilet 3 times that "bloody Mary" would come out of the mirror, but like 2 years ago me and my cousin tried it, and know I know it's not true.

I used to believe…

When I was about six, me and my friend Rebecca created a world called Magic World. It had loads of invisble dogs and other animals we could play with. We could do anything we wanted to. We ran round the playground playing it. Then I told my friend Emily and she stared playing it with me. We fought all the baddies from it. Hehe, along with our trusty imaginary sidekicks, Ethel and Jessica

I used to believe…

As many others, I believed in Santa. One day in the car, I started crying, because I was thinking about a monster. My mom said, "Don't worry, the monster isn't real--just like Santa" Which, of course, just made me cry more.

I never believed in the tooth fairy - instead I used to believe that your tooth somehow magically changed into a 20p coin overnight! A much more logical explanation of course!

I used to believe…

When I was ten, I convinced myself (for fun) that there were creatures called Shmozzits living in my closet!

These imaginary shmozzits I made up were male and female and they lived in a nest that was on one of my closet shelves. They had a tapir's head, a fish's tail, a bat's wings and soft fur on their body. If you weren't careful, they'd eat your clothing!

I used to believe…

When I was little, around 3 or 4, I met my imaginary friend Scooter. He was as tall as my thumb and would always sit on my hand and talk to me. When I moved from the lake into town around age 4 or 5, Scooter moved with me. He and his family lived under the sidewalk across the alley from my house but he would always come over and play with me. I think I had him until around the 4th or 5th grade. He wasn't around much through my school days, only when I was feeling lonely or left out. I would go into the bathroom and talk to him. He always made me feel better. I am starting to miss him after writing this.... :(

I still to this day(11 years old) think that once I turn out a ight, an invisible vampire or ghost appears and follows me around the house. We have a large staircase and I go to bed latest so I have to turn out the lights. I turn out the light and pund up the stairs, often resulting in loss of breath. And my parents room is under the stairs partly so I get many complaints about that.

I would never get into the car because I firmly believed there was a witch sitting on top, waiting to get me, and waiting to crash the car. It was only my babysitter's car, too. I believed it because one time, when I was in her car, lightning struck a tree and the tree almost fell on top of her car.

I used to believe…

Whenever I got a new box to play with, I would grab my cat and get it in and sit there for hours upon HOURS thinking that I was going to planet "Klockykloo" which, yes, was a name I made up. I used to plan launch times -- y'know, to go back to my home planet. With my cat. I believed we were both aliens, or something. I also believed I had a totally different family on that planet and I would get there some day and be with them. My parents just laughed, but I seriously believed I belonged on that planet!

i used to believe i was a mom when i was about 4 and i had to children called tiney and diggey and we all lived in the fridge together. and everyhting my mom would do i would do the same wioth my 'children'.