I believed that your stomach must be empty before you go to sleep.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- I used to think that the right sides of roads are empty in England, since everyone drives on the left.Anon
- I'm deaf in one ear. Until I was 7 I believed that if I didn't sleep on my good ear, dinosaurs would eat me.Anon