When I was little, I used to believe that people were always, always looking at me: through windows, around corners, under whatever I was sitting on, you name it.
I also thought my parents set up invisible cameras to watch all of my actions and that my various pets had cameras in their eyes and reported everything I did to them (my parents). I was also dead certain that people were always reading my mind and recording my thoughts in order to use them against me later.
I was kind of a weird kid.
A childhood belief about being watched
others believed things like this
- I used to wonder when reading the obituary column how people always managed to die in alphabetical order.— diane
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - When I was little, I thought there were tiny cameras everywhere and they belonged to the government.— Brooke
- I used to believe that my mom had surveillance cameras everywhere I went and could always see what I was doing— Mikhail
- My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.— Ned