You could suffocate if you ate a bannana before you went to bed. Here's why. One night when I was about 5, I went to get the last bannana just before I went to bed. My older sister intercepted me. She told me that if you had a bannana before you went to bed, you could suffocate in your sleep. I believed her. I was also told that if I eat before I went swimming, I could die, so this made sense. I didn't eat bannanas at night for years. She ended up eating that bannana to "protect" me. The saddest thing is that she did the same thing to me a couple of months later with the last pickle.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to think my aunt sandra was aunt bannana.Anon
- I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.— Daniel
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!— Nicola Braden
- I used to believe that my stuffed animals would come alive at night to protect me.— Julie