One day, I became obsessed with the thought of what kept my eyeballs in their sockets. I was leaning over a bowl of applesauce, with my eyelids half closed (the better to keep my eyeballs in my head), when something plopped into the applesauce. I immediately shut my eyelids tight. Only after what seemed an eternity of terror did I carefully open one eye at a time (my hand cupped to catch a loose one). After I realized that neither had fallen into the applesauce, I turned to see my older brother smiling. He had tossed a small crayon into the bowl.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- When I was little I saw the word "applause" and thought it said "applesauce"Anon
- When i was very small i used to beleive that your eyelids would freeze if you let the wind get into them.— Wind girl
- my brother used to believe that everybody except him could see their eyeballs— Matt
- 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
- I used to believe that people dream because they have little TV screens on the inside of their eyelids. — Ingrid
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak