I thought people's eyeballs were just slippery spheres in slippery sockets. I thought that if I pressed on my eyelids, my eyeballs would pop out. I was always very ginger when I rubbed my eyes.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- my brother used to believe that everybody except him could see their eyeballs— Matt
- my dad used to tell me that if I ate in bed that ants would come out at night and eat my eyeballs!— jeps
- My sister convinced me that tapioca was made with fish eyeballs.— Eileen
- 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