body functions

I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.

I used to believe…

When I was like four, I always got sick and when my Mom wanted me to take my medicine, she used to say things like it will help my bloodsells and my stomach and different body parts and she would always say that my blood cells were at war with germs and it sounded like they were alive how she explained it so I used to belive my insides were alive and the food in my belly would talk to eachother and when I took medicine or ate something healthy, I would look down at my stomach cheering for my blood cells!

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When I was in elementary school, I believed I was a witch and that I could change into other animals, but I only did it at night after I went to sleep. I had an imaginary pet tiger named Jasmine. She was teal. I believed this until nearly fourth grade.

I believed that dreaming involved sinking through my mattress and into an ever-changing fantasy world under my bed. This is due to one dream I vividly remembered as a child that began with a 3rd-person perspective of my body falling through my bed and into another world. While awake, I would often search under my bed for this world.

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When I was in elementary school, my best friend and I noticed one day that a boy in our class, an exceptionally fast runner, seemed to have the ability to teleport. We began to note this ability in other boys. We would test it by closing our eyes and then reopening them and seeing if the boy could have possibly gone that far without teleporting in that amount of time, which we always agreed they couldn't have. Somehow the purple rubber bases we used in baseball got thrown into the mix. We strongly believed for several years that all boys had the magical ability to teleport using these purple pads.

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When I was a kid, I thought you threw up when the food in your stomach had collected up to your throat and needed to be emptied.

I used to believe…

My family used to tell me that if you played in the campfire, you would wet your bed at night.
Never actually happened, but I was VERY careful to use the restroom before I fell asleep.

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Whenever I hear myself breath at night, i think a little orange muppet wasbreathing and he would jump out and bite my arms off so i always hide deep under my covers. still do!

I used to believe that people could read eachothers' mind by pressing foreheads together. This came about from my being the youngest of several (very bored?) siblings. My brother would agree that whatever word I said was indeed the one he had been thinking, and he would magically be able to guess the word I was thinking, thanks to the sister that I had told before-hand.. they had to make sure I wasn't cheating.

I used to believe…

When i was little ithought i was the only one who could cross their eyes.I don`t know why but i would cross my eyes and since people would become blurry i thought i became invisible.i kept thinking that until in grade 1 i was doing it and my teacher told me to stop or my eyes would stay like that...i then understood i wasn`t invisible lolll

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When I was younger my Mom was showing me her wedding ring. She kept asking me, "Can't you see the diamond in the middle there?". I thought she meant there was a tiny second diamond INSIDE of the first one. For the longest time I would take me Mom's ring and try as hard as I could to see this second diamond inside.

I used to believe…

When I was little (under the age of 5) I thought that a persons poop was the same color as their skin. And since I am African American, I would always want to see the poop of a person of a different race,

I used to believe…

When I was younger my Dad used to tell my if I farted too much my ass would fall off, so I tried not to fart and I ran up to him a few week later telling him it had fallen off when I got in the bath.

I used to believe…

When I was little I used to believe that feelings were little people that lived in your shoulders, and that when someone "hurt your feelings," your shoulders would slump and the little people would cry.

I used to believe…

One of my good friends in 5th grade, whom I considered one of the smart kids, we all were, it was a smart school....well anyway she told me farts were nothing but air off the dookie...when u think about it it kind of makes sense, it certainly smells like air from the dookie

I used to believe…

When i was a kid i used to believe that if i farted and sneezed at the same time i would explode. My friend told me it happened to his cousin.