Although I never believed that there were actually people inside your tv, I thought that you could see the other channels by looking up the side of the tv screen, as if they were all in a big line, and when you changed channels they simply moved across.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When i was a kid, i thought that the tv changed channels by dark magic.— Anna
- I used to believe that people couls see you on the TV screen. I only changed when the commertials were on.Anon
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- I used to believe that when I went to movies people were behind the screen acting out the part — Amy
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie