I used to believe that when I turned off the TV, whatever I was watching would "pause". When I came back and turned it on, I was disappointed to see it had kept going and was over.
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
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to believe that everyone died when they turned 40. — Sara
- i used to believe everybody died once they turned 100— mis-spent youth
- i used to think that when i turned 5 i would become a boy because 5 sounded like a boy age.Anon