i used to think flies, if they landed on your face, would crawl behind your eyeballs and lay eggs. i also thought that when you closed your eyes your eyeballs would roll all the way back into your head. and the squiggly lines you saw when they were closed were the little fly babies.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- my brother used to believe that everybody except him could see their eyeballs— Matt
- I used to believe that when I closed my eyes, nobody could see me. — Jens
- I used to think if i closed my eyes noone could see meAnon
- my dad used to tell me that if I ate in bed that ants would come out at night and eat my eyeballs!— jeps