when I was about 4 or 5 and at my grandfathers house, i noticed that my mid-torso moved when i breathed. i thought that only adults were supposed to do that so i held a pillow against myself and took slow short breaths so the pillow wouldn't move (i was afriad someone would say something to me about it if it did). Even now i try not to move too much when i breathe.

self concious behind a pillow

I used to think that when people said they had 'butterflies' in their stomach, there were real butterflies flying around inside.

Anon

I thought that if I said "Excuse me" enough times, I would be even for all the times I burped as a baby and never said it. I must have said it at least 500,000 times until my teens or twenties just for good measure.

Chloe

When I was a kid my brother told me that boogers were parts of your brain falling out of your nose. I believed him but it didn't boter me. I just figured brains were supposed to fall out.

robin

when i was little i used to belive that there was little people liveing in you hammering your bones together and when you brokea bone it ment one had died :(lol

samantha

My baby sitter had a daughter who was a teenager, when I was five years old. When the teenager was away at school, I would go into her room and look at her clothes. I thought that one day, I would grow into a teenager overnight and I wouldn't have any clothes to fit me. I was scared I would have to go naked, until my mother explained that it is a gradual growth process, not an overnight growth explosion!

Anon

When I was younger (shamefully about 10 or so) I used to believe that sanitary towels actually went under a womans arm to stop her sweating. And just like the bodyform advert said, they were actually invisible. I just couldnt understand why, if they could make a sanitary towel invisible, why they couldnt make other things invisible as well.

As a woman of 23 I now know differently!!

LouLou

I used to believe that when your mouth is just in a line, not smiling or frowning, you would look like this because God didn't want you to frown because babys were being born every second, but he didn't want you to smile because people were dieing every second. That is why you are not either frowning or smiling at every second. I believed this for so long.

Aili

I used to have a lot of nightmares when I was little, so I always dreaded bedtime, because of my fear of the bad dreams. So one day, I decided that maybe if I wrote on a piece of paper what I wanted to dream about [happy stuff like mermaids or flowers or rainbows] and stuck it under my pillow right before I went to sleep, my brain would receive my "good" dream wishes, and the nightmares wouldn't be able to get through. And if I woke up the next morning without any recollection of a bad dream, that meant that it had worked.

This may seem silly, but I believe, even 20 years later, that it was a good idea. lol.

angie

I used to believe there were little people inside my body, and they masher up our food when you digest it with those things people mash potatoes with. I also thought they pushed sleep up through your eye (like a big boulder).

Anon

I used to - and kind of still do - believe that if you hold back your sneezes, your head would explode.

I hold back my sneezes... dundundun...

Kelci

I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.

Elizabeth

I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.

Anon

When i was a kid i used to believe that if i farted and sneezed at the same time i would explode. My friend told me it happened to his cousin.

Dr. O

I used to believe the spleen was an urban legend

Nikki

When I was little, everytime I got a cramp I thought ants we inside my body and were putting salt wherever the cramo was.

Anon