I thought that if you fell asleep with gum in your mouth you would die so you had to stick it to your head board or whatever for the next day. And if you did that it would taste even better too.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a weegie board was some sort of surf board.— Missa
- i used to think when i fell asleep spiders would capture me and eat me.— SPIDERMAN
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep in the bathtub I would wake up in the sea.— Brenda
- i used to belive that if i fell on my head my head would come off while i was doing a cartwheelAnon
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep lying on my front that my boobs wouldn't grow. And they didn't.— Booey
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon