When I was little I'd see my little brothers' eyes moving, and I somehow concluded that mine coudn't do that. My mother had me look at a fixed object while I turned my head, and lo! they moved. But I was disappointed that they didn't zip back and forth like everyone else's.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.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