when I was a little girl, I used to lie in the grass and watch the blue sky. Then one day, a friend of mine came and said to me that if I stared at the sky for too long, my eyes would pop out and I would be blind for ever. I didn't look at the sky for years.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- i used to think if you stared long enough at the sun (until it looked blue) you could kill it— sean
- I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.— silvia
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- i used to think that if you were blind you had to have your eyes closed. Anon
- I used to think that if you closed your eyes, you convince others that you were blind.— katie B
- I used to believe that you were only classed as blind if you had your eyes closed.Anon