When I was a wee lad, 4 or 5, I realized that TV wasn't real, but I hadn't quite grasped make up and special effects. I wondered where they got a guy with pointed ears to play Spock, or a giant hairy thing to play Chewbacca, etc.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to think that the only way you could play football was if you had giant shoulders.— Sam
- I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!— Jonathan Franz
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- I used to believe that if i swallowed some Play-Doh and made a wish, my wish would come true.— Nadia
- I used to believe that everyone on earth was just really dolls for giants to play with.— Chelsea