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I thought that if you swallowed your gum, it would stay in your stomach forever, so you had to make sure to never do it because eventually there would be no room for food anymore.
Also, old CRT TVs had this static electricity sort of fuzzy feeling on the screen, and if you ran your hand over it, it would dissipate. I thought that by doing that, you were absorbing the TVs power and if you did it too much, it would eventually stop working.
Lastly, I believed with all my heart that all the pets you ever owned were waiting for you in heaven and it made me mad when my (very devout Catholic) grandma told me that pets and animals don't have souls and so they didn't go to heaven. I said if that was true then I didn't want to go to heaven! I'm atheist now, so I don't even believe that anyone goes to heaven, but if anyone deserves to go, it's all the kitties, puppies, and various rodentia I've loved in my life.
My stomach one was watermelon seeds. My brother told me that if you swallowed them they would grow in my stomach and of course I believed him. There's plenty of water and nutrition in there and every time I open my mouth they could be getting sunlight.
At my Catholic high school, one of the teachers who was a Dominican sister told us that animals can't go to heaven but it's possible for them to be recreated in heaven.
I feel fine as long as my rabbit didn't go to purgatory or hell, but non-eternal souls are hard to relate to
Pope John Paul II told her to kick rocks in 1990.
https://missdarcy.org/from-rainbow-bridge-to-pearly-gates/
If you could instantiate soulless virtual beings in heaven for your amusement at will, it would be way less boring. You could recreate Mortal Kombat
materialise?
Yes, as in "to create instances of".
The Rainbow Bridge, is part of Catholic Dogma according to Pope John Paul II
Side note: At that time in my life, one of the schools I regularly attended as a non-Christian was a Catholic school that was called Pope John XXII, and I was legitimately confused as to how there were only 2 Pope John Pauls, while there were at least 23 Pope Johns. I think I thought that since a pope doesn't have term limits, that there must not have been too many more popes than British Prime Ministers. Having grown up, I can safely say that while I wasn't exactly incorrect, I was still criminally underestimating the sheer number of people that held both titles.