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 think when somebody sneezed you were supposed to say 'Gableshew'.

gablesh

When I was, oh, 9 or 10, I first noticed that yawns were contagious. My logical mind figured out why: Yawns are invisible things, almost like spirits, that float around the world, and when they get the notion, they pry their way into someone's mouth. Then, they would find the next person they could, and pry into their mouth, and so on and so fourth. It took me until I was twelve for me to abandon that concept.

Xornia

When i was little i would talk really fast so my parents would always say something like "breathe when you talk!" so i used to think that when i was talking i wasnt breathing and that i would die from not getting air...i was strange...

Sufficating Freak

you know how if you lay a certain way on one side, you can hear your heart kind of beating. i used to think there were caterpillars in my ear and each beat was one step of one of the many caterpillar feet!

sunshine

When I was in infant school I had a friend named Robert whose mum was a nurse. Robert had a lot of bad habits so she used to tell him lies to make him stop. I distinctly remember him coming to school looking very worried, because he'd heard that if you did false burps then your chest would split open. To back up this lie his mum added that she'd just been treating a 75-year-old man who'd had to have surgery as a result of doing false burps. Everyone in the class believed it for ages.

Maz

I used to believe that each day, we were only given a certain amount of "muscle" and we had to cash the "muscle" in whenever we wanted to move. This was because I heard my sister say, "It takes 15 muscles to smile and 40 to frown".

I was a smiley kid.

Keep on Smilin'

I went through a phase when I believed that my mother might break into a million tiny pieces if I hugged her too tightly. I was terrified of bedtime because she always wanted me to give her a really big hug goodnight.

Mandi

When i was younger, i got told that is you blow your nose too hard, then you will actually be blowing your brains out!
Fancy telling at 5 years old that!!!!

Jen

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 believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.

Debbie

When I was young my mom and Grandma would always tell me every time your tummy rumbles it's because a gremlin lived in there and I was scared because of the movie Gremlins

Kelly

I once asked my father why people yawn. He replied that it was "your body telling you to find shelter." I believed him for years.

Anon

Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.

Verapamilo

When I was really little I used to believe that little mice would eat the food in my stomach and operate all the things inside of me. NO idea why

Vicky

i used to believe that everytime you hiccupped, your pine shot up an inch; making you taller

adria

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

when I was five years old I thought that when you became an adult you stopped breathing. this was because I could see my own chest going up and down when I breathed- but I couldn't see any of the grownups chests move at all. guess I was too short.

Anon

When I was only about 3, I thought that blood was yellow, because earlier
I had popped a blister and yellowish-clear stuff came out. I thought that you
peed out the old blood and kept the new in your body until it got too old,
and I was always afraid that if I peed for too long, all my new blood would
come out and I wouldn't have enough blood. I always held in a little bit,
just in case it was new blood. I believed this for about a week until I cut
myself and thought something was wrong with me, and I screamed to my mom, "MOMMY,MOMMY! my blood is red!
Am I gonna die?!!!" Heh heh. :P :D :)

aero_girl

When I young (like Kindergarten age) I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, and, when I got out of bed to walk around, my feet were "asleep." I thought that the pain from walking on them when I got out of bed was the result of God punnishing me for getting out of bed... I thought God was trying to make me feel like I was stepping on nails!

Liz