I used to think that a television show would stop when you turned off the set. This meant you could watch it for a little while, go play, and then pick up where you left off when you returned. I was devastated to learn that life revolves aorund the programming, rather than the programming around life. I never saw the end of that episode of Fraggle Rock...
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I somehow got the idea that if I boiled a rock, it would come to life. My dad disproved that...Anon
- In my childhood I used to think that all the superheroes I saw on television existed in real life— Cris
- I used to believe that my life was interesting enough to be a TV show and that they recorded me 24/7Anon
- I used to believe that life was like a tv show and that the world ended when I died.— mortimer x
- I used to believe that a life sentece was for when you stay in jail for your whole entire life.— Sara
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina