When I was very young I believed that our bodies were hollow and whatever you ate or drank went down to the bottom of your feet and gradually filled you up. This process took years and when you were "full" at a very ripe old age, and there was no more room, you just died.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cow udders were hollow bags full of milk.Yet I knew that human boobs were solidAnon
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to think that limes were lemons that weren't ripe yet.Anon