I thought that when you ate anything, it started filling up at the tip of your toes and built up through your body. When the food you ate reached the top of your head, that's when you died.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I usd to believe that, all Americans were left handed and we all died when we reached our 100th birthday!— Greg Baron
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- I used to think the song "Who Built the ark? Noah. Noah." was "Who built the Ark? No one, no one!"— Embarrassed Kent Girl
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura