I use to believe that if you went underwater without closing your eyes first, you would go blind. I would always make sure my eyes were shut real tight before going underwater! I think I got this idea when I was real young from a movie that I completely misunderstood.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- my mum used to say if i lied my eyes would change colour...when i lied i would shut my eyes— kevin rosenqvist
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - 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