I use to believe (about 30 years ago) that when you turned the television off, the actors would all go and sit down somewhere inside the TV, until you turned it back on. Partly because it seemed like the Brady Bunch or cartoons were always on. Or maybe that's all my parents would allow me to watch.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon