When i was really little, at school, a teacher told us that we didnt listen because birds had flown in at night and made nests in our ears. i believed this for ages and was hopelessly trying to clean out the nests and close the window every night.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that craters were old dinosaur nests.— dumb one
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- my older brother told me that if i didnt clean every bit of dirt out of the prints on my feet, i'd die— chel
- I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.— Kate
- I used to believe that if I didn't clean my ears that carrots would grow inside.— Gilian