I used to believe that your eye was like a raw egg, and that if you poked your eyeball, it would run all over like the yolk of a raw egg.
Then my dad got eye surgery and had stitches across the white of his eye. The sight of it made me nauseous. I couldn't look at him until it healed.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- I used to think that the Cadbury eggs, that come out at Easter, were filled with real egg yolk.— d
- I thought if I poked people on the tv in the eye, they would feel it and go 'ow'. — Helen W
- I used to believe that if you poked a cloud with a really long stick rain would come out.Anon
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- One kid I know believed that because I wear glasses, it wouldn't hurt if he poked my eye.Anon