I used to believe that when you could here people laughing during a sitcom ( a live TV audience0 that the laughs were coming from little people inside the television.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the people inside the television could see you. Anon
- I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- I used to believe that people on television speak to me & look at me ! — Macy