As a child, i took the phrase "screaming your head off" literally, and lived in fear of coming across a screaming head flying through the air.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon
- i used to belive that if i fell on my head my head would come off while i was doing a cartwheelAnon
- I don't know why. But I always ran away screaming after the toilet flushed.— Bijan
- When I was a child, I had a fear of bagels. I thought they were stale doughnuts.Anon
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I used to think my forehead was actually called a three-head.— Fen