eating

My older brother once explained to me how he thought digestion works. He said that there are little men in our stomachs and when we eat, the men pack up the food in boxes. They stack the boxes really high, and then when the stack reaches our mouths, we burp, and the stack disappears. So the men would start another stack of boxes.

Not only that, but my brother would wiggle his fingers on his tummy, sort of in a tickling motion, to make the men work faster.

He could believe whatever he wanted, but he couldn't convince me!

Not that gullible

when i was around 5-7 years old, i used to believe that if i eat too much my stomach would explode.

mijung

My younger brother thought for the longest time canker sores were called "Sweet Bites" ...because when he ate something sweet it would sting.

R

I used to believe a man lived in my stomach with a blender. and he would put all the food I ate into the blender. if i threw up it was because he spilt the blender. i would get really mad at him sometimes.

kelsi

When I was a child none of my food could touch or get mixed up on my plate. Everything had to be sectioned off neatly. I firmly believed that every food had its own compartment in your stomach. Hamburgers had the hamburger department, corn had the corn dept. and so on. I was convinced that if your food got mixed up and you ate it that way, it would not know where to go. The food would forever rot in your stomach and you would die. I was a very strange child!

Dawn Marie

i used to think that when you ate food it would go in your stomach and when you ate the rest it would fit back together just like a puzzle and then it would come out in that shape. i found out i was very wrong when i expected to find curly crap when i ate a cinnamon roll.

big blonde

I used to believe that a little gnome lived in my tummy with a camp fire and a cupbored and that if i drank water it would put his fire out, so i would have to eat a chip with ketchup on the end ( looking like a match) to light it again. and if i didnt eat for ages, he would just get a chip out of the cupbored and eat it.

Millie

you know how when you choke on your food people say it went down the wrong drain er whatever? well i used to believe that in my throat were two slides and there were little soldiers guarding each one and they told the food which one to go down. So when i choked they were slacking off. I can still see this image perfectly in my mind.

sarah

When I was younger, I somehow got it into my head that there were a whole bunch of little compartments in my stomach. I thought that there was one for every different kind of food that I ate. And I thought that there was alittle man inside of me who organized and guarded everything for me. I didn't realize it was wrong until I saw a picture of a human stomach, and there were no compatments. I even used to make sure not to mix foods and eat everything seprately so that the man would have an easier job.

Bea

I used to believe that your stomach had four compartments. Two for solid food and main meals and such. One for drinks. And one for dessert. This is how I figured I could always eat so much and still have room for dessert. Surprisingly enough my stuffed horse told me that it isn't true. I have to go now. I have a phsychiathrist appointment.

PhSYco

When I was about four or so, I used to believe that my stomach was a hotel lobby, and all of the foods I ate that day were having a party! The apples and oranges were the hosts of the party, the banana was the old security guard, and the candy was the life of the party.

Lisa

When I was little, I believed that there were elves living in my stomach that would make piles of all the food I had ever eaten. There were piles of cookies, roast beef, peas, carrots, etc...

Bethany

when i was younger my mam used to say drink milk it keeps your bones white.so i imagend when i drank milk it would go down a seperate tube into this big bucket in my stomach.and litle men woul climb up along my bones and fill there litle bucket with milk and go down to the bones and srub them white.when i was bored i used to talk to the litle men i thought were in my stomach and say things like please litle men scrub my bones as white as you can!

i believed that till i was about 12!

aisling

I was once told that if i swallowed the pips from the grapes, then a grape tree would start growing inside me. So i imagined a fully grown tree coming out of my mouth ! I tried not to swallow any pips after that.

Anon

when i was little, i thought that my throat was a bucket and that everytime i swallowed, the bucket would come up, fill with water, and the dump into a tube that went into my stomach...

i was a special child...

*~+Nina+~*

when I was eight years old, I swallowed a cherry pit. I was sure it was going to grow into a tree inside my stomach - I waited to die for daaaays.

Anon

i once beleived that if i did not eat any food, god would punish me

andria

When I was a litt le kid (not sure of the age.) I thought that there were little people in my stomach. I had it all made out. When I ate something, it went down my tubes and fell in front of a lion (which explains the growling of when i was hungry) and then he would poop it out. Then these little people would run and put it in a jar and stack it on a shelf. when the shelf got too full they would put it out.. Hints poop. If a jar was old and forgotten about, it would turn into a gassy substance and they would open the jar and run!.. Thus creating a fart. Im not sure about pee or how that worked but yea.

I was quite upset when I learned the truth!

Jess

When i was small i believed that we are all empty inside and that the food we eat first goes in the feet, then the legs and then slowly fills us up until to the top of our head!

David Clark