When we were young, we all wanted to have blue eyes like my dad. We asked him how we could get blue eyes, and he said that we should eat carrots. So we'd eat tons and tons of carrots, but our eyes remained brown.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark— nik
- i used to believe that people with blue or green eyes saw that certain color— mellactica
- 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
- 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