I used to believe, that if you lost all of your eyelashes, you wouldn't be able to blink your eyes. This stemmed from learning that fish did not have eyelashes, and do not blink.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- When I was about 7 I used to believe that I was the only person in the world that could blink.— xoxo
- I used to believe that tapioca was frog/fish eyes.— Dana
- I used to believe that tapioca pudding had fish eyes in it! EEEWWWWW!— Chris
- my dad once told my bother and i, that olives with pimento, were fish eyes. — jocelynn
- i used to believe, and was told, that there was fish eyes/eges in tapioca pudding. I have never aten it since.Anon
- I always thought the dots in tapioca pudding were fish eyes.I didn't eat it for years!Thanks alot Ricky!!!— Tapioca