if you cross your eyes and there's a gush of wind, you'll get stuck like that !!
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- If you cross your eyes, they will get stuck like that.Anon
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- I used to think that all people closed their eyes and stuck their tongue out when they died.Anon
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria