I used to read in the dark (or dim light, anyway), and my older sister told me that if I did that, my eyeballs would pop out. Needless to say, I didn't do it again...
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- My sister convinced me that tapioca was made with fish eyeballs.— Eileen
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- if you read the bible in the dark your eyes would pop out— chriistabelle
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon