When I was in elementary school I read a story about making wishes on loose eyelashes. I wanted to make lots of wishes so I pulled out my eyelashes so I could use them to make wishes. My mom had to take me to the doctor because I got little scabs on my eyelids from pulling my eyelashes out.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I used to think that scabs were God's bandaid.— Elizabeth
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike