When I was younger, I used to think that farts were food in the gas form, and that they would shoot out if it got too crowded in the stomach.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that stomach aches were farts stuck in sideways. — amanda p.
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine