I used to believe that to get rid of the lost eyelashes that got caught just on the surface of the eyeball would escape through the eye duct and finally out the nostrils :-)
Actually, can anyone disprove it?
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the white foam on the surface of the ocean were unicorns trying to escape.— intunedwithmagic
- When i was a kid, i used to think that my dads moustache grew out of his nostrils — l.j.
- I used to gag when I ate english muffins because the holes in the bread looked like nostrils.Anon
- I used to believe that human lived inside the planet earth and not on its surface.— Giancarlo
- I used to think that "elbow grease" was an actual product of kitchen or surface cleaner.— Carrie
- I used to think that when people were taking their contacts out that they were taking their eyeball out :) — Jen