When I was 8, I used to believe that Specsavers (an optitions in the UK) had a glasses factory under their shop where they made glasses and they would put the glasses in a tube so the people working there could collect the glasses.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who wore glasses were blind and could only see when they had their glasses on. Anon
- I used to believe that people who wear glasses did had a second brain!— Onessa
- I used to believe that people who wore glasses were very smart.— Anonymous
- my sister used to believe that glasses were for blind people.— Lauren
- i use to believe that all people who wear glasses were catholic....dont even ask me why???Anon
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana