Very Hungry Caterpillar
This is one of my most vivid childhood memories and I just accepted it as true until recently when I gave it an extra mull over. I don’t know if it was a dream or what honestly.
There was a worm/caterpillar thing on my tricycle and I remembered being told they can be poisonous and not to touch them.
My parents were telling me to get onto my tricycle so I was telling them no, theres a caterpillar on there. My dad’s asking me where and I’m screaming/crying that it’s near the handles, my parents are telling me theres nothing there and make me get onto my tricycle despite me screaming.
The caterpillar then crawls onto my hand and eats through the fleshy part between my fingers and thumb, on my left hand. This obviously didn’t happen but until I really thought about it I’d just remember that bit as where the worm ate through each time I looked at my hand.
If I was screaming beforehand, I was definitely screaming after. I remember my parents not being able to see it and telling me nothing happened but eventually I got my dad to put some TCP on it.