I used to believe that if you turned the TV off when you turned it back on it would be at the spot where you left it. I was very upset when I turned the TV back on to watch Rescue Rangers to find that it was Terry Wogan's chat show instead.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- 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
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon
- 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