I used to believe that when you looked at something your eyeballs actually LEFT your head and went to the item you were looking at. I'd sit and watch the tv and close my eyes when someone would walk between me and the tv so that my eyes wouldn't bump into someone.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- i used to think when you sleep your eyes turened round to watch performances in your head— rasverone
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- 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