When I was 4, my mom told me not to eat in bed because then we would get ants from the crumbs. I thought crumbs were really ant eggs and that all the food we ate was made of ant eggs.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- I used 2 believe crumbs turned into bugs.— Jen
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- I used to think that the sleep in my eyes at the breakfast table were toast crumbs.— crawford