At around age 3 or 4, I thought cartoon characters were real actors but just in a cartoon world that was filmed and shown to us. I imagined bugs bunny and daffy duck sitting together at lunch eating their sandwiches and discussing their latest 'work'.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- i used to believe the easter bunny was my bunny that a fairy turned real.— Twix
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth
- I used to believe eating the crusts from sandwiches would make my hair curly.Anon
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- i used to picture jesus as a kind of cartoon Tarzan, swinging through the trees...— bex