I used to believe that when I would play a video game in 1 player mode that the other players (the computers) were other people from around the world. But back then there weren't much online games, so yeah.
I also believed for a while that the computer was a robot playing the game.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- I used to believe that the game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the longest game ever.Anon
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- My dad told me that playing basketball makes you taller. Basketball players are tall, so I believed him.Anon