I used to believe that people on TV had a big bank of monitors which allowed them to see you in your living room. One Saturday morning, I was watching Swap Shop while wearing my pyjamas when Noel Edmonds said to camera "What are you doing still wearing your pyjamas!?"
What more proof did I need? I ran to get dressed because Noel Edmonds told me to.

david

One day I discovered the truth that the TV stations had giant banks of lights at the studio, each light was connected to different TV sets in peoples homes. When you turned your TV on and set it to their channel, your light would come on at the studio, that's how they knew you were watching and that's how TV station ratings worked! I spent one slow Saturday morning turning our TV on and off for hours in order to mess up their statistics, however the only outcome was that our TV blew up in a spectacular way. I was convinced that the TV station had done this to our set because I was being silly and messing with their lights, I vowed revenge for week and then forgot about it.

Steve

I used to think that when watching TV, the laughing voices in the background were of other people who were watching that show from their homes, so I used to stand by our TV and laugh into the speakers hoping to hear myself on TV.

Helen

I used to belive that when the TV went blank when it was on, that some spies were watching me through my TV. So I would yell, "Put it back to my regular programming, or else I'll call the police." And surprisingly, the show(or commercial) would come back on.

S.M.G

I once asked my mother how they made newspapers. She told me that a machine made them. I took this as that there was a machine that gathered all of the news and printed out papers.
I asked my mother this because I sincerely wanted to appear in the paper to be 'famous.' I proceeded then to draw a picture, and walk around saying that it was "the best picture I had ever drawn." I figured that this would be picked up by the news machine and that me and my brilliant artwork would appear as breaking news the next day.

Landis

my mum used to record things off the telly and then stick a label on so we'd know what was on it.
well when i was younger i thought whatever you wrote on it would be on the video, so i wrote one out "my day" needles to say it didnt turn out to be a video about me!

Anon

I used to believe that the laugh tracks on television shows were actually made by the people watching at home - so I had to be very quiet and not make any sound..lest I be heard by anyone out there...

Amanda

I used to think that the eyes on the photos of people on my posters were actually cameras that the companies had put in to see what you get up to and to help the police, so I used to get dressed/undressed with my back to them! I was 11 too!

Natski

As A Toddler: I believed TV was a RUSSIAN TRICK sent over via satelite FROM RUSSIA for the sole purpose of spying on us and I thought they saw us thru the white noise and that I could see them if I stood really close to it side ways at the corners! I was always told by my parents to stop standing so close to it and THIS verified my beliefs it was the communists tool to take over & spy on our country or why else were my folks so scared for me to stand so close to it?

Kira Pangburn

When i watched hollow man starring Kevin Bacon, i was TERRIFIED that someone was watching me in the bathroom... i used to wave around a belt and wave my hands alllllll around to make sure there wasnt an invisible person hiding in the corners... i was probably like 10-12...

esineD

I used to believe that the people in magazines and books could see me if their faces were visible. Needless to say, if I wanted to read in the bathroom, I would cover their pictures with my hand and as an added precaution, would always drape a towel over my lap... in the same vein, I thought the authors of books I read and the musicians on the music I listened to could see me, and I tried to never do anything that would embarrass them.

Anon

i used to think that everyones life was onegigantic movie for god with everything in it comedy tradgedy romance everything and i did till i was about 10 years old

randomly insane

I used to think soap operas were people being spied on. So when my life got pretty dramatic I'd stick on a video to draw the attention away from me... just in case.

Paranoid

When I was younger I used to believe, that there were cameras in our shower room and bathroom, and that every time I had a bath or shower, I was being watched on national television. Until I was about 6 I had a bath or shower in a bikini....I'm still a bit jittery about it!

Scarly

When I was younger I had loads of posters of my favourite celebrities on my walls in my bedroom. When I was getting dressed I thought they were watching me, whichever way I went it seemed like their eyes were following me. I was very uncomfortable with them "watching" me so I used to get a little bit of blu-tack and stick it over their eyes and take it off when I'd finished getting dressed! It took a long time to cover them all but I think it was worth it! :-)

Jem, UK

I used to believe that if I danced well enough when the music shows were on then if I was the best someone would come and give me a prize becuase of course the people on the TV could see you dancing

Jenny

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 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

Once, when I was about four, I saw a really fat kid on Reading Rainbow, and told my mom I thought he was fat. My mom told me not to say that, because people in the TV could hear everything you say. For three years, whenever a friend said something bad about a person or show on the TV, I would tell them that the actors' feelings would be hurt, because they could hear you. I finally found out the truth, when I told this to a friend when her mother was in the room, and the mom laughed and explained that they couldn't hear us, but that didn't mean we should say rude things about them.

Katherine

When i was little about 5 or 6 i used to think that flys were spys and were watching and recording my every move. And that when i went to bed and the flys went away and would show everythng bad i had done to my mum and dad! How else did they know about all the bad things i had done?

Amyc