When I was little I loved watching TV and trying to stay up late (still do), but Mother told me the TV went to sleep at night, so I left it alone at bedtime, making sure not to wake it up and make it mad.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- i used to beleive that everyone in the world went to sleep at 8:00pm (my bedtime)— yvette yasui
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert