I used to think that the human body was hollow. When you ate food, it began to slowly fill your body. When your body got full of food, you got sick and threw up.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- I used to believe that cow udders were hollow bags full of milk.Yet I knew that human boobs were solidAnon
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- I used to believe that my body was a costume with me in it. — Silver