Remember how when you shut off those old tube-type TVs, the picture would shrink down vertically to a thin line, then horizontally until there was just a "dot" in the center of the blank screen? (A dot that could persist for quite some time.) Well, when I was very young, I thought that the dot was an "eye" and that the TV could spy on me when it was off. This is probably why I watched so much TV as a kid -- as long as it was on and there was a picture, I felt safe, but especially early in the morning or late at night, if I entered a room with a TV that wasn't on, I got scared.
A childhood belief about being watched
others believed things like this
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I once thought a vent in my hotel room led down to the center of the earth.— flarn2006
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I first saw a picture of the human anatomy, I thought the brain was really snot.Anon
- Whenever I saw a picture of a whale spouting water, I thought it was urinating.Anon
- i used to beleve that the sun had thin long legs and followd me wherever i went..— Hege