I used to believe cameras had eyes behind the lens. I believed this until I was 8 and my mom dropped her camera and broke it.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I thought that when you broke a bone, it broke completely off.— gin
- When I was 6 or 7 years old, I absolutely believed that if a thermometer broke--the world would end. — Suzi