Whenever I faced the sun as a kid, I felt the urge to sneeze, so clearly the "magnetism" generated by the sun caused sneezes. Silly huh, EVERYONE knows little gnomes inside your face release gases that cause sneezes.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- that sneezes were caused by little pixies crawling up your nose and brushing past your nose hairs— Joanna
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that windmills were what caused the wind to blow. silly me :)— Adrian Z. Ontario, CA USA
- I used to think that if I held in a sneeze, my ears would turn inside out.— Lori
- I used to believe Chad Kroeger from Nickelback was computer generated— Indeed
- I used to believe that ants walked inside your body and that's what caused an itch.Anon
- I used to think that if you don't close your eyes while you sneeze YOU DIE!!!!— Nutter