I have no idea how I came to believe this, but as a child I thought that there was a triangular shaped booger inside your nose and when you accidently picked it, that's what caused nose-bleeds. Gross.
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- that sneezes were caused by little pixies crawling up your nose and brushing past your nose hairs— Joanna
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.— The Mortal Elf
- I used to believe if you picked your nose, your brains would fall out your nose.Anon
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras