I used to think that when you ate something, it would just stack up inside your stomach. I had this mental picture of all these foods stacking up inside my stomach and once they would reach the top it would start coming up out of your mouth.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon