When I was little I asked my mom "How do hiccups work?" She said "It's your lungs expanding." I took this to mean "It's your lungs getting bigger." I thought that when you were hiccuping, it meant you were getting bigger.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon
- i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were biggerAnon
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- All through life, I always thought the lungs were located in your throat. I'm 25.— thelungs,man
- I used to believe that the lungs where tubes in the neck.— Some Guy
- When I was i kid I used to believe that if i strained too hard while doin #2 I would poop my lungs out...— K.Gordon