My mom told me when i was about 4 that if I keep sniffing instead of blowing my nose when it was runny that my head would explode. I believed this for a very long time. I never sniffed and when I saw my friends do it in daycare I would freak out and start yelling at them to stop unless they wanted their head to explode!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My dad always told me to never hold my sneeze and if I did, then my head will explode.— anon.
- i use to belive that whenever i had a headache then my head would explode until i was 10— Eryn
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- My brother once told me that if you burp and fart at the same time, you'd explode— Aubrey
- I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long— Heather
- My mum told me that if you sniffed poppies your nose would bleed.— Karen