body functions

I used to have a lot of nightmares when I was a kid. My Mum told me that if I slept
on my stomach I wuldn't have bad dreams. It wasn't til I was in University, and
plagued by terrible nightmares that I realized my mother had made that up, and
she probably just told me that so SHE'D get a good's night sleep...
yet, belive it or not, I still can't fall asleep unless I'm on my stomach

I used to believe…

When I was little I once heard someone stating that each breath we take brings us one step closer to our death. So I figured that we each had a preset (but unknown) numbers of breaths we could take before we died, so if I learned how to make each breath last a really long time I could live for hundreds of years.

I must have misheard some explanation of the human digestive process, for when I was four years old, I thought that two Indians (Native Americans now) sat inside me, sorting out the food I ate and extracting the nutrients.

I used to believe…

When I was pre- preschool age, I used to think that vomit was manufactured by a special vomit gland. So one day I was playing with my friend up the street and I was rolling him down the hall in a laundry basket. Suddenly, the lid popped off, he came out and had a pile of spaghetti in front of him. His mom hurried me out the door without answering any of my questions. My Mom also was reluctant and almost secretive about telling me exactly where that spaghetti came from. I was confused about that for another couple of years.

I used to believe…

my folks told me that if i didnt wipe properly, my butt hole could seal....

i made sure to wipe properly for about 7 years, and made them check to see if it was clean.

i was told that if i ever saw someone else peeing in the bathroom i'd grow a little sty in my eye. to this day i do not allow anyone to watch, nor do i like to watch anyone pee.

I used to believe…

My mother had extensive abdominal surgery when I was 3. As a result,I thought all hospital visits ended with a huge scar on your stomach. The fear of tonsil removal was overpowering,and my poor parents had no idea what my problem was. When I came to,I kept checking my stomach. Thought someone had made a mistake.

I used to believe…

When i was little i believed that pads were for moms and dads. Whenever they would go to work they would put one on so that they could pee their pants (since they didn't have a bathroom break like we did at school) and nobody would know.

I used to believe…

when i was a kid i thought you stopped breathing when you fell asleep. when my mother would come in to check on me at naptime i held my breath - no wonder she always stood there so long!

I used to think that deja vu ment i had magical powers. I used to get deja vu alot when i was younger, and still till this day infact. I used to smile and tell people i could reverse things and do them all over again. I doubt the understood i ment deja vu . My poor parents must have been so amused. I also used to think i could predict the future because i would have a song in my head all day long and when i would turn on the radio, 8-10 times it was that song i had in my head all day. Not popular songs, just random favorites of mine. Same thing with movies. I would be thinking of a line or charector from a movie and it always seems like when i turn on the tv, there is that movie at some point of its running time.

I used to believe…

My mother once told someone she couldn't take a breath without me being right there! I interpreted that to mean she really couldn't breathe unless I was with her so I stuck by her all of the time. I thought if I went out to play, she wouldn't breathe!

I used to believe…

When we were little all of my friends and I believed that if you were touched by a person who farted, you would get the fart-touch. to make yourself immune you had to say "rooty-tootie-fresh-and-fruity, knock on wood!" and cross your fingers while counting to ten.

I don't know why I thought this, but when I was in kindergarten I had a friend and I thought that instead of having a butt, that she had to bring a little shovel with her into the bathroom and shovel the poop out....odd isn't it? I was a very imaginative kid...

I used to believe…

when my daughter was about 3 she would poo on her play dishes and say "I'm making dinner for you".

I used to believe…

When I was six or seven, I used to believe that when you put a bag over your head and jump off a roof you could fly. It wasnt until i tried it did I realize humans can't fly.

I used to believe…

My friend told me when i was 10 that if i shaved my arms i would get cancer. I went on believing this for years. I never thought shaving my legs would be a problem..but my arms were a no no!