I used to believe that the thing the doctor looked in your ear through was actually a camera, kind of like a digital camera, that could store pictures of the inside of your ear on its "screen". I used to get really mad because he'd let my parents see the "pictures" but not me.
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 - I used to believe,there was a little person inside my Dad's box Brownie camera.— Sandra R
- I used to believe that everyone in pictures could see me so i turned all of the pictures in my house backwardsAnon
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- I used to think that the laugh track on sitcoms were the camera men, directors, other actors, ect. laughing.Anon