tv

my older sister could NEVER make me take a nap in the afternoon since i was glued to the tv. one day, she was absolutely fed up with me, so she told me that little girls and boys who watched too much tv would get sucked into the t.v.

Anon

TV sets still had "tubes" when I was a kid, so when I saw these lit up inside the back of the set I thought there were entire cities in there where all the people I saw on TV lived and worked. After all they were only as big as the TV screen, weren't they?

cg

I used to believe that when a t.v show stopped, and the credits were rolling with the last shot as a backgroud, the people in it had to freeze until the credits finished and i used to feel sorry for those people becuase they couldn't move or breath for such a long time!

Star

I used to think that if I was watching The Brady Bunch and Mom called for dinner that I could turn off the TV and come back to see the rest of the show when we were done. Although it never worked out that way I continued that thought process for a couple of years. I imagine I also used to bump into walls when I was learning to walk, back up and bump into them again. That's my only explanation.

Tom McDonald

When I was around 8 or 9, I saw Rolf Harris (UK TV personality) do a skit dressed up as Jake the Peg, who had an extra leg. The leg of course was fake, but to me it looked real. From then on I believed that Rolf actually did have three legs, and when he presented other shows like 'Animal Hospital' he just tucked his extra leg down his trousers or something.

Mel

I used to believe that people on TV used to somehow get shrunk then queue up inside the cable to await their turn. I always wondered how they got inside the plug.

Anon

I used to believe that you could climb into the television and you'd end up where ever it was that was on the screen.

Michelle C from Michigan

When I was little I used to think that everything you saw on TV was actually inside the TV. Like little people and all those yummy chocolate bars from the Moro adds, and I thought you had one opportunity to smash the TV glass and then you could have whatever was on TV at the time. So I watched the TV for years waiting for the best thing to come on so I could smash the TV but I knew it had to be really really special, so I kept waiting for the most perfect thing... Luckily I never ended up smashing the TV.

Toni

When I was about 3-4 years old, I used to believe that if I could break through the TV screen somehow, I could make it to Sesame Street. I guess I thought the TV was some kind of portal to another place.

Susie

I use to believe that when I turned off the tv programming would be halted. I thought that changing channels on the tv would make the vcr record different programs and also believed that the 'reflection' on the tv was a magical tape that recorded what I do before I did it instead of a camera.

m0u5y

I used to believe that there were little people in the T.V. My mum was watching a horror movie when I walked in. There was a person with a gun aimed at the screen, yelling something. I got so freaked out, I thought she was about to be shot! I called the police, and when they came, they thought it was so funny! Now, I know better. :)

Jess

Until I was about 6 years old I believed that the laughter and applause heard during sitcoms was coming from other people watching the show at home. I would shout into the TV speaker to see if anyone would answer me. Sadly, no one ever did. ;o)

Carrie Jo

I used to believe that whatever television show I decided to watch the rest of the world had to watch on their televisions also. If I changed the channel, the channel also changed on all of the other televisions in the world.

Jenny

When i was about 4 or 5..i tried to look under dresses in the television screen

Alexito

My Mom always showed me the old Black and White shows an said "That's all they had when I was young" One day I asked her "when did the world find color?"

GP

i used to be terrified of the show goosebumps. ( a show that acted out horror stories) so i thought that the freaky characters lived in the t.v and one time i wanted to smash the t.v open so the charcters would come out and i could get my dad to beat them up.

Freaked out!

I believed that the way t.v shows were made was that every household was being filmed all the time. So I thought that maybe my family was on t.v. somewhere.

Crystal

I had a very vivid and strong imagination as a kid. In my kitchen there used to be a big table with a very long table cloth over it. So me and my brother used to go under it and lean against the wall and watch tv from the tablecloth. I have no idea how I somehow created tv from the tablecloth but we would talk about we were watching too... wierd hell yeh

elle

I am 45. When I was a child I used to believe that a TV show did not start until the TV was turned on, rather than at an exact time. I would get so upset on Saturday nights if I came in and my sister had already turned on "Red Skeleton." I would cry because I thought that she had "let it out" before I got there!

Martha

A long time ago, newsreaders would be looking at the teleprompter, but every so often, they'd pretend to glance down
and read from a piece of paper. When they did that, it would look to me as if they had closed their eyes. I used to wonder why they were talking little naps during the news!

myself