When I was little my dad told me that when he got something in his eye he used to go to the hospital where they would take our his eyeball which was on a long string and wash it in a bowl! For ages I thought our eyes could be taken out on long strings!
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- If you look at a screen too long, your eyes will turn square.Anon
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I used to think that planes were held up by stringsAnon