tv

When i was younger i allways watched childrens t.v @ my grans house after school for hours on end! They said to me everyday that i would get square eyes. Then when i had 2 get picked up by my mum and dad i allways would go "mum, dad are my eyes square??" They allways said yes you have, as my gran allways stood behind me nooding her head to make them say yes. Why did i belive them?? because i was only little and they brought me up like that!

$arah

I used to believe that the map they show on the weather-rapport only showed half the world,and I couldn't wait to grow up and travel around exploring the rest of it! No need to say I was heart-broken when I found out I was stuck on this side of the (boring) world!

mena-norway:)

I used to believe when their was black and white tv every saw black and white through thier own eyes. When color tv came along everyone went to the eye doctor to see color.

Kev

This one isn't my own...
About a year ago, my younger borther said he likes when we stay at our grandma's place, because her TV is bigger than ours. Nothing wrong with that, but his reason for wanting a bigger TV was that grandma's TV fits the whole picture on it. He didn't realise, despite growing up in a house with TV's of varying sizes, that the picture shrinks to fit on the screen.

Anon

When I was 4-5, during the waning years of the Reagan administration, I was convinced that the President delivered the CBS Evening News every night. It was not until President Bush I was inaugurated that I realized that Dan Rather and Ronald Reagan were, in fact, different people.

Anon

When I was little I once saw a programme about how they made cartoons. It was all about the painstakingly long hours they put into drawing each individual clip of the cartoon. Later on when I watched Neighbours I was amazed how realistic all the characters looked and thought that all the people on it were drawn. I thought all programmes didn't have real people and everything was drawn. I think it took me a few years until I learnt different.

Catherine

When I was in pre school I used to believe that if I watched to much tv then my eyes would turn square and pop half way out of my head.

~Cucumber~

As a child I used to believe all actors on tv were puppets and had lollypop sticks stuck to their heads moving them around. Then I wondered how they did that when their body wasn't the full height of the tv screen.

Chel*c

I used to beleive that the newscasters
on tv knew when it would rain because they could talk to god and god would tell them.Beleive it or not, I was 7 or 8 @ the time. I wanted to be a newscaster 4 a long time until I found out the truth! I'm 11 now and laughing about it

Josh Martinez

i used to think that if i stood behind the tv, i could get on television! i still remember standing behind it and asking my brother if he could see me on the screen..

Anon

Around the age of 6 I was convinced that the world inside the TV was real, and the only barrier between that world and myself was the glass screen. I REALLY wanted to go inside that world to explore and play, and spent a long time trying to decide whether or not I should break the glass so I could jump inside. I remember sitting and weighing my decision. "If I break the tv screen, my grandmother will be extremely mad, but she won't be able to catch me, because I will jump inside TV land..... of course, she could follow me and find me..." In the end, I decided it wasn't worth the risk, thank God!

big dreamer!! -- joyous windrider

When I was little, my old babysitter scared me into always rewinding videotapes by telling me the VCR would explode if the tape went all the way to the end. I believed it! To this day, out of habit, I still make sure to stop the tape and rewind.

meliko

i used to believe that the wrestlers on tv would come out and eat all of my spaghetti that i was eating when i would watch it

courtney

I went to my friend's house and they had a VCR. I actually thought it was real-time TV that they had the ability to fast-forward, and rewind if they'd missed a bit. I was devastated when I realised the truth.

Another friend got Teletext and I was absolutely mystified by the prospect of 'reading' your TV whilst the sound played over it. I thought these gadgets must be worth millions and that my parents would NEVER in a million years be able to afford them. We got them about a year later.

Katie

When I was a little kid (around 5 or 6). I was always afraid that it was illegal for me to watch any TV show with a rating above anything my parents said I could watch, at that age, that rating limit happened to be TV-Y7, so if a show started and I saw that the rating wasn't TV-Y, TV-G, or TV-Y7, I would panic, grab the remote and instantly change to something that was, because I thought the police knew that I wasn't supposed to be watching what I was, and they'd come to my house and arrest me...

I'm now 13 years old, and my parents let me watch anything up to TV-14, and I always watch things rated TV-MA anyway...but I'm still afraid someone will see me watching it and I'll get in trouble (though I know I won't get arrested...) so I always close my bedroom door, close the blinds, and turn down my TV's volume....just to be safe!

Amanda

My sister was told by my father that if she pressed the off button on the TV when he was watching it, the TV would catch fire!!!

Alley

My sisters taught me what to do during an EBS test on TV and radio? (for those outside the U.S. - EBS is Emergency Broadcast System, the way the government alerts people to emergencies like earthquakes, tornadoes, war, etc) They said I was supposed to get under the coffee table in the living room whenever I heard the EBS tone - and I did it for years. Many years later, I ended up being a radio announcer and actually ran those EBS tests. I still laugh to myself whenever I hear one of the tests.

Anon

When I was little, whenever I watched The Little Mermaid I thought that if you broke the glass screen, that water & all the fish would come pouring out, but I never tried it because I didn't want to get in trouble for getting the furniture wet.

JV

When i was a wee lad we would watch american cowboy westerns and they would state " that varmint has a price on his head" so i was always expecting a price ticket or spike to be stuck in his head like we would see in the butchers shop Weird huh

Ron Marriott

When I was a child, my mother said that I did not have to watch a lot of television, so she believed that if I watched a lot of television I would go blind, so when I watched a lot of television and my eyes felt tired, I was scared because I thought I would go blind.

Jose Francisco