I used to believe that when you were hungry, if you took too long to get something to eat, your stomach would start to digest itself. Because of this belief, it used to scare me when my stomach would start to growl, since I thought it was only a matter of time before my stomach started to "eat" itself.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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 beleive that my stomach growled when I was hungry because I was part tiger.— Matthew
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- I thought that if I swallowed grapestones, a tree would grow out from my stomach. — Tone
- When I was younger I thought I made up a new way to tickle someone--by tickling their stomach.— Amelia
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda