i used to think that when you turned off the television is paused like a tape. so everyday i would come home from school at 3 and watch ghostbusters. my mom would make me a sammitch or something and i would come back and be very discontented at the fact that someone had turned the tv back on.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe if you were watching TV, and you turned it off, it paused.Anon
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.— Marie M
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique