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when i was a little kid, my mom told me that every time i got the hiccups i'd grow an inch. i kinda like the idea because it seems kids get 'em more than grown-ups and that's why kids grow up so fast, but adults stop growing.
superxan
When I was a kid, I asked my dad what color burps were and he said 'blurple'. I believed him until I was about 13 years old. I was shocked that my father messed with my head like that.
top belief!
When I was little I once heard someone stating that each breath we take brings us one step closer to our death. So I figured that we each had a preset (but unknown) numbers of breaths we could take before we died, so if I learned how to make each breath last a really long time I could live for hundreds of years.
Ncik
top belief!
I must have misheard some explanation of the human digestive process, for when I was four years old, I thought that two Indians (Native Americans now) sat inside me, sorting out the food I ate and extracting the nutrients.
Chuck Hardin
top belief!
When I was pre- preschool age, I used to think that vomit was manufactured by a special vomit gland. So one day I was playing with my friend up the street and I was rolling him down the hall in a laundry basket. Suddenly, the lid popped off, he came out and had a pile of spaghetti in front of him. His mom hurried me out the door without answering any of my questions. My Mom also was reluctant and almost secretive about telling me exactly where that spaghetti came from. I was confused about that for another couple of years.
Russell
top belief!
when i was a kid i thought you stopped breathing when you fell asleep. when my mother would come in to check on me at naptime i held my breath - no wonder she always stood there so long!
tricia
My mother once told someone she couldn't take a breath without me being right there! I interpreted that to mean she really couldn't breathe unless I was with her so I stuck by her all of the time. I thought if I went out to play, she wouldn't breathe!
I used to believe that everybody breathed in and out at exactly the same time. I would watch my family and notice them breathing at the same time as me. I didn't question it until I found out that it would be impossible.
Nastar
When I used to visualize my digestive system, I imagined that in my stomach was a big potato masher mushing everything up.
Marlene
rude-bits, I remember my friends telling me that if I masturbated my eyes would get slanted like an oriental person. Then a band called "The Vapors" came out with a song called "Turning Japanese." The song is about masterbation. AS you can probably tell I wouldn't touch the thing for a long time!
Gump
I used to believe that you ate until your body filled up, and then you got sick and thru up to make room. I always wondered why I didn't get sick more often when I was full.
The little daughter of some friends of mine thought you couldn't digest your dinner unless you went for a walk afterward.
Dave P.
When I was 5, my parents had plumbers in to change our plumbing from lead to copper pipes. At the time I was interested in how food got from our mouths to our stomachs. Mum explained that it all went down a pipe into our stomachs. I was well confused and couldn't understand how we could bend over when we were full of copper piping.
I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.
My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.
i thoiught ur lungs were like a sponge and would run out one day so i started holding my breath as long as i could
cameron
I used to believe that my blood would stop circulating around my body if I didnt use the foot pump, that was located in my foot, to pump it around!
I think I heard that the heart was a pump and just got a bit confused.
Sandra
I believed that we had little people in our stomachs that processed our food. And it was especially good to try to eat bones, because if there was a hole in our skeleton, they would have material to fix it.
Erin Rednour
I always thought "wet dreams" were like female menstruation.
In grade 6 we had a sex educator come in and she told stories of what boys would tell their parents after they had a wet dream. Would they tell them they accidentally wet the bed? Would they grab the sheets and throw them in the laundry?
I said "You could pretend you cut yourself and it accidentally bled all over".... I was so embarrassed, yet still didn't know what exactly a wet dream was!
Christina
My mom used to tell me that having the hiccups meant that I was healthy. I am now 29 and I still do not know what it means when people hiccup.
Gary
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