body parts

When I was a kid I just assumed that you could have any sort of beard you wanted when you grew up. I liked the big curly "Homeric" beards on Greek statues, and decided that was the kind I was going to have.

It was a bit of a disappointment to end up with something that looks like a rat's nest.

I used to believe that to get rid of the lost eyelashes that got caught just on the surface of the eyeball would escape through the eye duct and finally out the nostrils :-)

Actually, can anyone disprove it?

If you hold your finger a few inches from your eyes, at some point of focusing you see double. When I was little I thought I was seeing through my fingers and that I was slowly turning invisible.

I used to believe that the soul was an organ of the body, like a heart or lungs. It sat somewhere under the stomach, it was discus shaped, hard and porridge-coloured.

I used to (ok, the habit stuck, I still do) stick my finger in my belly button. My parents told me that if I took my finger out, all the air would come out. I was terrified that I would die if "all the air came out."

I used to think that the reason that we are able to see is that light somehow comes out of our eyes and illuminates the scene in front of us. I apparently never thought about why this doesn't work in dark rooms!

However, I have since read that grown adults used to believe the same thing in the Middle Ages, so it must be a common misconception.

My dad used to say that if I sat with my back to the fire for too long I would get "floating kidneys".

when my the first of tooth about to fall, my elder brother made me beleive that if I showed it to open sky, a replacement tooth wont grow at all. Hurriedly I used to bury it in our garden.

I had my adenoids removed when I was 7, or rather as I believed, I had my asteroids taken out. I also believed that if you asked nicely they'd give you them in a jam jar to take home.

When I was little I used to think that men who had lost the hair on the top of their head had lost the top part of their head too and there was a danger that things might fall out if they leant over. It was for this reason that I refused to sit next to my Grandad at the dinner table.

I used to be really scared when my parents would open the windows on our car as we were driving, I was absolutely convinced the wind would blow my hair off! I would hold my hair and cry till they closed the windows.

my sister believed up until about age 6 that coloured people, bevcasue she had never known many, were "chocolate" people. It took alot of convincing without her trying to eat one before she decided that they just had different coloured Skin!

For some reason I didn't know what the word excitement meant, I thought there was a deflated balloon somewhere in the region of our diaphragm, and when we got excited it would inflate, but not knowing the word I always called it "the deflated balloon feeling"

Growing up in a kosher household, I somehow got the idea that if you touched blood your hand would shrivel up and fall off, following an incident in year 7 science involving half a kidney and a pair of tweezers I realised it didn't go quite that far.

When my mum was little, boys kept pulling her pigtails. It turned out there was a rumour going around that she had holy pigtails and pulling them was good luck. I suspect that one was started by an enemy!

I used to believe that if you got all the black bits out of your belly-button, your insides would fall out ! I believed that untill I was about 10 then realised it was dirt and not seeds which I thaught I was born with to keep my insides inside!