Remember how when you shut off those old tube-type TVs, the picture would shrink down vertically to a thin line, then horizontally until there was just a "dot" in the center of the blank screen? (A dot that could persist for quite some time.) Well, when I was very young, I thought that the dot was an "eye" and that the TV could spy on me when it was off. This is probably why I watched so much TV as a kid -- as long as it was on and there was a picture, I felt safe, but especially early in the morning or late at night, if I entered a room with a TV that wasn't on, I got scared.

Stanislav Jehosaphat

I believed that if you had a picture of someone, they could see you also. I always wondered why I couldn't see into anyones houses like they were looking at mine. Even into my teenage years I was wierded out by pictures and covered them up so I wouldn't be watched. I am still not totally comfortable.

Lindsay

My friend across the street told me (and I believed for a long time) that Native Americans lived on the nearby hills, and were listening to everyone with powerful tape recorders and other fancy spy gadgets. If a child cursed, the Indians would tell their parents about it.

Needless to say, I was relieved to find out this was false.

Chilton

you know when you were little you would watch all these kiddy shows?
well,I watched one while I was eating waffles and the...talking animal said "I smell waffles" by coincidence!
I screamed and ran around the house for bout 2 minutes...and called the police saying there's someone with a camera outside the window watching me.

Anon

I used to believe that in order to get the raitings of how many people watched their show, spys would go to every house, every hour and peek into the windows to see what people watched. When ever the clock said that it was 5:59 etc. I would look out the window trying to catch the spys. My sister asked me what I was doing, and I was conviced that the spys weren't there because she talked too loud, and they heard her.

Kat

I used to believe that people who were on the television had a screen in front of them where they could see everyone who was watching them - I used to hide behind the sofa if I didn't want them to know I was watching.

RT

I used to think that, whenever I took a bath, I was the star of my own TV show. (The TV show was always being taped, but it was a talk show when I was bathing.) I would take two hours or more in the bath, until the water was very cold. I was very sad when I started taking showers...no more show.

Jessica Aspra

i used to believe people were secretly watching me and all my friends were just sent to make me happy or sad because every time i started watching or listening to something everybody else would too

Nonny

When I was little I used to believe that whenever a lightbulb was not on, it turned into an eye which could see me, big brother style... And insisted on turning lights on everywhere I went. I only got to sleep with the light off when I was 13!

Maria B.

I used to belive that there were hidden cameras all over the place and they were being viewed 24/7 by movie makers everywere.(this is how I thought movies were made)So since I wanted to be in a movie so bad,i always did everything whith a lot of drama.I even made putting on peanut butter on a sandwich look cool and matrixy.i also did everything in slow motion and do cartweels on the street and also do front flips off my bed.

Alex.G

I`ve got a stoopid phobia which I got after watching somekind of a spy film..
Altough I know there are no cameras and noones watching, I thin my neighbours have made little holes in the walls near the seiling and they are watching me... it`s annoying, i think they really are!!!

Flying Beauty Of Latvia

I used to pretend that the whole of reality was some sort of huge long movie about my own life. I can't remember whether or not I actually belived this. I do remember occationally doing a voice over like some kind of cosmic narrator,announcing the next great chapter in this epic. I have no idea who was supposed to be directing or producing this indulgent work of art. But, I wish I had thought to look into this at the time. For in retrospect, I would like to take the author of the sceenplay to task.

Anon

I used to think the old BBC logo that was on one of my videos as a child was evil and wanted me to be dead.

tanukibear

I used to think the little holes in the walls had little cameras there so then i tought that we were being secretly watched at all times

Anon

When I was in Elementary school,every time I found out a boy liked me, I was CONVINCED he was hideing outside my window at night watching me.

Heidi

I once slept over at my freind Krystals house, and my sleeping bag was right infrotn of a GIANT aaron carter poster, He freaks me out okay/ SO I didin't sleep all night because he was staring at me and I tohught if I fell asleep he would jump out of the poster and kill me!

Sum41Phreak

On a message board one time, a guy was trying to convince everyone that the FBI could see you through your computer monitor, which is why he covered it every time the computer wasn't being used.

He then went on to a long technical explanation of how and why the FBI would do such a thing.

I would think it was some kid posting the message, but this was on a high security locksmith forum my father posts on.

Imagine. How retarded can you get? The guy had to be at least 45 years old, as well.

Mallory Maloney

I used to think that anything in my room with a face (posters, dolls, stuffed animals, etc.) could see me. I would always face away from them when getting dressed and I always feared doing anything stupid in front of them. I'm 17 years old and I still do this.

Caity

When I was younger someone told me that there was a special chip inside Furbys so the government could use them and spy on everyone. To this very day my Furby still faces the wall.

Caity

I used to think that there were cameras in the lights of my house, so that the girls from my class could watch me. So, I was very careful when going to the bathroom, or after a shower, or changing before bed.

I would either do this with the lights off or put on my boxers under my towel.

I did this from about the 2nd grade to about the 4th or 5th grade.

Rob