I used to believe that the music on the radio stopped when you turned it off. When you turned the radio on again it would be in that same spot of the same song. I never tested this idea (obviously) but merely assumed it to be true.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you were a kid and u turned the radio on in your car then the car would blow up— steph
- I used to think that when Dad turned the radio up in the car the artist was made to sing louder!!— Sparks
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- I used to believe that when a song came on the car radio, the band was sitting on top of our van.Anon
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria