body functions

I used to believe…

My husband believed that woman peed through their vaginas, and held onto this belief up into his 30's. When I asked him how he expected a woman to pee when she is on her period and using a tampon, he couldn't come up with an answer.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I use to believe that the reason people stretched all the time was because if they sat too long they would shrink, so stretching was a way to get back the original size.

I used to believe that famished meant full until I told my mother when she asked me, at my own birthday party, if I had eaten all I could. "yes mum, I'm famished." sez I. "Bang". ""Ouch", mum, what was that for."

I used to believe…

When my brother was little, before i was born, he whatched superman. He thought he could fly so one day hile my mom was in the shower he jumped off the couch and went head first into the TV. Yeah... he cracked his head open alright.

I'm amazed no-one's mentioned flying down the stairs! When i was young i could distinctly remember a time when i had walked (or probably crawled) out into thin air from the top step and floated or flown down to the bottom. I really believed that i had done this. Apparently it is a common childhood experience (several of my friends have 'remembered' doing it too!) Perhaps it's a memoty of being picked up and carried around as a baby?

I wish it had been true!

I used to believe…

When I was 5 yrs old, I believed that I could fly. I had a vivid memory (still do) of flying in my bedroom. I swore this tale was the truth until I was about 14 yrs old! I finally stopped telling it though. Now I'm not sure if I stopped believeing or I got tired of defending my story *wink* I still think of this memory from time to time and smile to myself.

I used to believe…

During the late 50's, as I began to watch T.V. and learn about reading, I saw advertisements referring to the dangers of "T.B."- I can recall thinking it couldn't be all THAT bad, since I was watching one, and the message was portrayed on one-quite a while passed before I had a clue about the difference between tuberculosis and television- as to the question of which is more dangerous, societally speaking, who can say?

I used to believe that a little woman and her kids lived in your rectum.When you pooped she was making them go outside to play. Sometimes they wanted to go out and sometimes they didn't.

I remember being sick and my mom saying, 'You have a bug.' I thought that there was an actual, singular bug making me sick and that if I sneezed or blew my nose enough it would come out and I'd be fine. When I eventually did get better, I knew I'd succeeded.

I used to think that people's legs were hollow. When you ate food, it went down to your toes and then bounced back up to your belly.

I used to believe…

My dad used to snore while sleep.My mom told me that "Don't open your mouth like your dad.Then some frog may get into your mouth and you will sound like youe dad".I beleived in until i was 16.

I used to believe that if you let your arm hang over the bed while you were sleeping all the blood would go away from it and it would fall off. I still get scared about that.

I used to believe…

A younger student in my school and I and a teacher were talking, and the student asked the teacher if it was normal for girls to have wet dreams. We looked at her really confusedly, and told her that was not possible. She replied to us that it must be because she wakes up every day soaking wet in sweat.

I used to believe that when I went to bed a group of faries would come and surround me and if any evil spirits came then they would put a curse on them and they would never come again!

I used to believe that when I went to bed faries would come and surround me and protect me,so would dogs at the weekend.

I used to believe…

When I was young, my parents referred to farts as "Tooters." Of course, this was never written down, so my concept of the spelling of the word was not quite what it was today. I was convinced it was spelled "Tudor," and when I first heard that word used to describe the style of house I was really, really confused.