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I had these nosebleeds as a child and clumps of bloody matter would often be in the tissue. I used to believe that those clumps were actual pieces of my brain. I thought this was true because I learned in class about the Egyptian mummification process of scraping the brain out through the nose.

L. Edwards

I used to think that if you smiled too much, the edges of your lips would meet and your face would fall off. I'm 13 now and I still don't like to risk it - haha.

Rachel

There was one time when I was young that I complained about something that was annoying me (my memory fails me on what it what it was), and I told my Dad that it was "getting on my nerves". He proceeded to tell me that I didn't have nerves! I now know that he meant that I knew nothing of the adult world, and for me to say that things annoyed me was just trivial. Oh how I wondered about how I had the sense of touch without having nerve-endings. My mind became a vicious-circle of confusion. Such a bastard thing to say, but how was he to know?

Nastar

I am glad to know that I'm not unique in this belief.

I too thought that little men were running about inside me (think of miniature Ooompa Loompas). They'd move my muscles, send messages when it's time to dispose of waste (and open the valves when it was time to), handling cuts and scrapes by scurring to the site and putting internal bandages on (scabs), resting when I did, etc.

I thought the sole purpose of my eating and drinking was to keep THEM going.

David

i used to believe that if you burped and yawned at the same time your eyes would pop out

kelso

At the age of 5 or 6 in the very early '60s my mom would take me with her shopping downtown. We took a string of street cars and buses to get there. Along the way I would notice on a regular basis "persons of color" spitting while at the bus stops or out the window of the bus. Their spit was brown. I now know it was from chewing tobacco, but at the time I reasoned that white people spit white, and brown people spit brown.

Don

This isn't my belief,but when my friend was younger and the sun would get in her eyes and she would sneeze, she truely believed it was because she was allergic to the sun.

Katie

i thought when one ate food or a body part functioned, elves made the whole process work, eg. blood was pushed through the body on a conveyor belt, with elves working the controls; food was pushed through the stomach on conveyor belts and each bit-meat, potatoes, etc was put into a different bin or vat.

peggy youngs

i used to belive that if you yawned and burped at the same time that would never be able to hear again. because my big brothers would tell me that so i belived it.i used to be horified to yawn and burp at the same time because i didn't want to lose my hearing

HIA

When I was younger my friend said that she had a sweet tooth and I said 'I've got one of those, but I don't know which one it is!'

Brooke

I used to believe that I had a little old lady living in my mouth who's job it was to keep my spit flowing properly. She would haul buckets of spit up from my stomach and sloosh it around my mouth, then it would flow back down to my stomach and she had to haul it up again. I was frightened of her because I thought she would be cross with me for making her work so hard.

Anon

I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU PICKED DANDEIONS YOU WOULD WET THE BED AND THAT IF YOU SWALLOWED APPLE PIPS AN APPLE TREE WOULD GROW OUT OF YOUR B-M

LORRAINE

When I was 5 or so, my much-older brother convinced me that if you ate the core of an apple and swallowed the pips, a tree would grow in your belly and grow out of your belly-button.
Needless to say I was always sure to throw the pips away.

TC

I used to believe that air moved only in and out through the mouth when we breathe, and not the nose. When our mouths were closed, the air could squeeze through between our lips because the molecules of air are so small. My mom disproved this to me by having me hold my nose, close my mouth and then try to breathe. I was shocked!

Patty

I used to believe, that if one part of your body fell asleep, like your hand for example, that if you touched your leg, the tingly feeling would spread there.

claire