I use to believe that when I turned off the tv programming would be halted. I thought that changing channels on the tv would make the vcr record different programs and also believed that the 'reflection' on the tv was a magical tape that recorded what I do before I did it instead of a camera.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- i always thought I was the reflection and your reflection was a personAnon
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- 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 tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- When i was a kid, i thought that the tv changed channels by dark magic.— Anna