my dad used to tell me that if I ate in bed that ants would come out at night and eat my eyeballs!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- my brother used to believe that everybody except him could see their eyeballs— Matt
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- My sister convinced me that tapioca was made with fish eyeballs.— Eileen
- I used to believe that Marmite was made of ants...— Tam
- I used to think that the gas meter made antsAnon