my mom always said if you fell asleep with gum in your mouth it would end up in your hair!
I thought you would swallow it during the night & it would seep out into your hair thru your scalp.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I use to believe that if my hair fell out I had cancer, and was most likely going to die soon. — Luca
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger— Anonymous
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo