Every day my Grandma would sit down with the Bible and my Mom, Grandpa and I would sit around her on the floor. She was older and when she looked down to read it looked like she would close her eyes, so I always thought you had to close your eyes when you read.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- if you read the bible in the dark your eyes would pop out— chriistabelle
- I used to think that if you don't close your eyes while you sneeze YOU DIE!!!!— Nutter
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- when i was a little girl i thought God looked like my grandma and dressed like the statue of liberty. Anon