I thought belly-buttons were the way that the insides of your body got water, and so I dutifully splashed water into my belly-button each night when I took a bath so my insides wouldn't dry out.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that playing with your belly button would lead to your insides pouring outAnon
- I used to believe that If I stuck my finger really far inside of my belly button I could touch my insides.Anon
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.— kate
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets