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

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.

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

When i was around 5, I was convinced my parents had video cameras installed all over my room. i used to sit in there by myself, and talk to every possible bit of the wall so I would be looking in the lens and they would know I knew they were there. I'd sit there saying, 'I know your watching me' and 'i can see the cameras, do you think im stupid?' lol...

fanfan

You know when they say on shows around how many people are watching? Well I used to believe that they had hidden cameras in every T.V, so just to annoy them, I would make faces and tell them that I hated the show.

My parents must have thought I was crazy, talking to the t.v!

This started when I was about 11. I had these heartthrob posters on my wall. (My favorite was Shaun Cassidy.) Well, I would not get undressed in front of them, because I thought he could see me. This lasted way into my teens.

Pat

I thought when my Mum used to watch 'Coronation Street' on TV that she was actually watching real people in their everyday lives. Which made me think English people were watching us on their TV's. Wonder where the camera's were hidden??

Pip

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 LOVE Blue's Clues. I used to think that, since there were kids shouting, any kid could join them. I used to shout "A clue!" and "It's right behind you!"
I was much older when I saw a making of the show and was extremely upset to see some kids off camera stealing my job!

cool cat

I used to believe that people on television sitcoms were real families that just didn't know they were being filmed and watched. I always worried about my family's life being broadcasted on television and would change my clothes and take a bath as quick as I could so no one could see. I believed this until I was about 7 or 8.

Sara

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

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 was an active TV watcher as a kid. But, oddly, as a very small child, I was afraid of the set when it was switched off, especially if the room was darkened. I was somehow convinced that when the TV was off, it could watch ME. This was the era of big, ugly console TVs, and those huge cathode ray tubes that, when switched off, shrunk the picture down to a single raster line that would then slowly converge into a bright "dot" in the center of the screen. Maybe I thought that dot was an "eye" that could see me.

I also remember being freightened when technical difficulties would interrupt a program, and the sudden silence was broken by the repeated recorded sound of a stentorian basso voice proclaiming "PLEASE STAND BY!" I would almost pee my pants, and have to quickly change the channel.

Stanislav

from when i was 5 all the way to 13 i believed that light bulb sockets with no light bulbs in were cameras so i never done any thing bad in front of them

connor

I used to think that the people in photographs could see out through their photographed eyes. (I never stopped to wonder why I couldn't see out of any of the pictures that had been taken of me.)
I had liked to read on the toilet before that, but after I developed this delusion I wouldn't read magazines or any book with pictures on the cover while I was sitting on the toilet, just in case.

Anon

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 believe that there were secret video cameras recording my every move. I believed that the TV I watched was of people in other countries being secretly recorded.

Sam

The closing lines of the TV show Candid Camera "Some day, somewhere, when you least except it, Someone may step up to you and say, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera!"" made quite an impression on me because I would think I was possibly being taped for Candid Camera. I would explain what I was doing for the benefit of the TV audience as I went about my day, waiting for Alan Funt to step out and say those famous words.

Broadway Baby

When I was around ten, I had a huge (and I mean HUGE) batman poster in my bedroom. I knew that when I walked from one side of my bedroom to the other, his eyes would follow me. I remember standing in front of the poster moving quickly from one side to another, jumping up and down, crouching to see if his eyes were following me. And sure enough (at least in my head) he was.

I had to eventually take down the poster because at night, I could see him look at me. At first I thought, "good, hes watching out for me" but afterwhile, the more I looked, the more mean he got.

Still have the poster too, all wrapped up and hidden in my closet some 14 years later =)

Gary Kiper

I used to think the television newscasters could see and hear me. I thought they were going to tell my teachers everything I did. I never got dressed in front of them. Ever.

paranoid