As a child, I used to think you could quench your thirst by repetitively building up spit in your mouth and swallowing it.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer