My mother once told me a story about a boy who had fallen face down on the grass. A seed got into his eye and later he grew a marigold out of it. I spent years terrified of getting "airborne marigold seeds" inside mine!
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- I used to believe that mushrooms in the grass grew if it was sunny and rained at the same time.— Ryan
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon
- that if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get airborne.— DeQuendre
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen