You know how your voice sounds much different on a tape recorder? I used to believe that if I recorded my voice onto a tape, listened to the recording and mimicked the sound, when I recorded that it would end up sounding like I thought I sounded all the time.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to believe that my life was interesting enough to be a TV show and that they recorded me 24/7Anon
- I believed that linguini was made of tape worms and was scared to eat pasta for a long time!— Mojo!
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix