I used to think that the cat's eyes on the road were actually real cat's eyes.I thought that they were there to keep you driving on the right side of the road as they would get sqashed and be really yucky if you ran over them.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- 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
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire