When I was young, I thought that my eyes were the eyes of everyone else. Whatever I saw, everyone else saw at the same time, so everyone relied on me to look everywhere. When I was tired in the car, I was afraid to close my eyes for fear that my Mom, driving the car, would crash!
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire
- I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.— silvia
- I used to believe that if you pressed on the inside corners of your eyes that your eyes would pop out.— Sabrina