One time when I was little I overhead my dad say, "eyelids are very delicate." For years after that, anytime I rubbed my eyes a bit harder than I intended, I would run to a mirror in make sure my eyelid hadn't ripped. I was terrified of it happening, because how could you possibly remedy a ripped eyelid? I doubt my father ever had any idea of all the trauma that simple statement inflicted on me.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it
- I used to belive I was the only person with a buttcrack because I ripped my butt open as a baby— FC
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to believe that if I pushed down on my upper eyelids too much, my eyes would pop out.— I Still Don't Touch My Eyelids
- When i was very small i used to beleive that your eyelids would freeze if you let the wind get into them.— Wind girl
- I used to believe that people dream because they have little TV screens on the inside of their eyelids. — Ingrid