I believed that if you crossed your eyes and plugged your nose and someone hit you on the back of the head your eyes would pop out.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I believed my parents really had eyes in the back of their head.— Tera
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire
- My mom always told me she had eyes in the back of her head. — Ellana
- i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- I used to beleive if i crossed my eyes they'd stay like that.. haha— L Bennett
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon