when i laid down to go to slept my mom would tell me to close my eyes, i thought it was beacuse the monsters had no eyes and if they saw yours they would try to take them.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you don't close your eyes while you sneeze YOU DIE!!!!— Nutter
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- i thougt that mongols were green monsters that suck your eyes out.— danai
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- 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
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire