Post here - your bizarro childhood rituals

[LynneSin]

You had them now fess up!

When I was young, I use to play Dan Hill's "Sometimes When We Touch" every night before I went to bed. I had a blank tape that I used to record the song off the radio and played it on one of those cheapie old box casette players. One night the batteries were dead and I was so upset because I swore I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until I heard my song.

Go ahead and Mock me - I dare you!

[jobycom]

1. I couldn't sleep without listening to a late night trucker radio program.

It played country music and did requests for truckers and gave trucker-related news. The radio had to be on or I couldn't sleep. After I fell asleep my brother would steal the radio for the night (we were poor--one radio household). If he woke me, there was fighting and shouting ensuing.

I still can't sleep in silence, and I still think of becoming a trucker when my kids move out. :)

[MilesColtrane]

2. I listened to the radio in bed before going to sleep every night.

Fare rotated between CBS Mystery Theater...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMzDTCcCoQ

the Jean Shepherd Show from WOR...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q96XPskFmE&playnext=1&list=PL99463AFDEAE5DDB4

and, the Doctor Demento Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ZpvEs0yB8

[Lucinda]

3. I had none. NOW is another matter entirely.

I'm getting progressively weirder the older I get.

[WolverineDG]

4. I was terrified by the National Anthem

I had some weird idea that the "monsters" couldn't get me if they thought an adult was awake in the room with me. My parents got a radio & let me listen to it until I went to sleep. Unfortunately, way back in the old days, most radio stations went off the air at midnight, playing the Star Spangled Banner just before signing off. If I happened to be awake at the time, I would frantically search for any radio station still broadcasting. End result is that I grew up loving trucker radio & actually once caught one of Wolfman Jack's shows on that station out of Mexico he was on.

dg

[LynneSin]

5. OMG that's whack

wait, I went to sleep listening to Dan Hill every night for over a year.

:eyes:

[WolverineDG]

9. kids are weird

:rofl:

dg

[applegrove]

6. I had these little china baby animals. I used to play with them before I slept.

[Crystal Clarity]

7. After having seen the movie 'Jaws'

I started playing a game of jumping from scatter-rug to scatter-rug (the hardwood floor in my bedroom supposedly being 'the ocean' infested w/sharks) But what began as a game became an obsessive-compulsive type thing that I felt weirdly compelled to do... so even in the middle of the night when I'd get up to go to the bathroom, I'd find myself jumping from rug to rug.

:crazy:... but hey, I was like 10 years old, and I guess the compulsion just faded away over time. :-)

[NoGOPZone]

8. Mock you? That song puts me to sleep, too. nt

[rbnyc]

10. I had to wrap a blanket around my head...

...in order to fall asleep because I thought that mal-intentioned ghosts would be able to see my thoughts through my bare forehead. If they were able to see my thoughts, they would search for my deepest fears and torment me with them. Unable to see my thoughts, blocked by the blanket, they would get bored and go away.

I also had to run and turn off the emergency broadcast test whenever it came on TV. My belief was that it would transmit a signal, and if uninterrupted it would reach receptor hidden in the brass knobs at the ends of our curtain rods that would instruct the curtain rods to come to life and stretch out like giant metal snakes and come after me.

How could I possibly mock you?

[Skittles]

11. I used to drink out of the hot water bottle in the middle of the night

yes INDEED