This isn't from me, but from my 4 year old daughter. Over the weekend she told me she was eating her boogers because she thought they would turn her eyes green.
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- my parents used to tell me and my sisters that if we ate our vegtables our eyes would turn green..— alex t
- I thought the Boogie Man was made of boogers-all green and slimy.— Boo
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- I used to be told that if you watched too much TV your eyes would turn square. — Amy
- i used to believe that when i told a lie my eyes would turn purple,because that's what my daddy told me!!— Jenna
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex