I used to believe that seeing lightning would blind you. So when my brothers and sisters would gather around the window to watch the passing storm, I would stay away from the windows and hide under my covers, lest I catch a flash out of the corner of my eye.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- I used to believe that blind dates were dates for people who were blind.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when there was a storm it was because God was angry.— Raul
- my bro used to belive there were smurfs in the atms passing out money— L