When I was a child, I knew that I ran faster with my head down and my eyes closed. This belief (which was really a visceral reality) eventually led to my veering off-course during an indoor race with a friend and splitting my head open like a cocoanut when I was about 4. The scar still looks great, however, all of 30 years later.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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
- My mom always told me she had eyes in the back of her head. — Ellana
- When I was little, I believed my parents really had eyes in the back of their head.— Tera
- i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon