I use to believe that the belief of ending up with gum in your hair if you wnet to sleep with gum in your mouth was not because it might fall out of your mouth onto your pillow, but that it would somehow absorb through the roof of your mouth through your head and into your hair.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- I used to think that if i put conditioner in my hair before the shampoo my hair would fall out.— Jerry Moe the Gimp
- i used to believe that if you farted out of your mouth, you'd die.— John Deere
- i used to believe that dragonflies would sew your mouth shut.Anon
- i used to believe that drangonfly's would sew your mouth shutAnon