Since I watched soap operas as a child I believed that the characters were real until I was watching a morning talk show and one of the guests was a character on Days of Our Lives that had been shot a few days before. I was so confused, I couldn't figure out how he came back to life.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- After watching a crazy TV show, I believed that aliens were real. I still have a little fear of them. — Niki005
- I use to beliee that if someone got shot or lost a limb in a movie they actually did in real life. Anon
- back in the days i thought the world was black and white like in the pictures— compaq
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- When I was 6 I believed that on nice summer days you can see the world spin if you just look hard enough :)Anon
- When i was a toddler i sued to believe that if you ate soap you would blow bubbles for the rest of your life.— KEL