When I was little about 4 or 5 I used to think if I took a paper cup and made a hole in the bottom, that when I looked through it, it was my own personal video camera, and it was recording everything I looked at through it.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- everyone has there own personal sun that follows them around.— kitty kate
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon