When I was younger my dad told me that if you picked your nose too much, that you would pull the lining from your brain! I believed that until I was 11 years old.
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye. — Jan St. Louis
- i used to believe that if you picked
your nose your brain would cave in...— mr bogtrotter - when i was little my mum used to tell me if i picked my nose too much my brain would fall out!!! think it did— Maz
- My brother used to tell me if I picked my nose I would become more stupid because bogey were brain cellsAnon