I used to believe that if you covered up your belly button you would suffocate. When I tried proving this to my sister I found out that I was incorrect, so I pretended to suffocate.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- You couldn't have your belly button covered for too long or it would be harder for you to breathe.— Jess
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann