When I was about 14 a friend told me a gruesome tale about another friend who, when she sneezed inside an elevator, her eyes popped out of their sockets and landed on her cheeks. I am now 37 and have never sneezed inside an elevator in case it is true.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you sneezed with your eyes open you would die!— Becky
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- I used to think when somebody sneezed you were supposed to say 'Gableshew'.— gablesh
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid