I used to believe that if I read all night in the dark (with very little light) that my eyes would get used to it and I would eventually get natural night vision, like cats. Needless to say I am now an English major with 20/400 vision.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate carrots you’d have night-visionAnon
- I thought I had X-ray vision and could talk to animals and they could understand me.— Kitty Lover
- if you read the bible in the dark your eyes would pop out— chriistabelle
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- The line 'The dark sacred night' in What A Wonderful World is actually 'The dogs say goodnight'...— rebecca
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon