Whenever I would watch TV and see a commercial for something I wanted, I'd try to call and order it. However, they always said, "Dial the number on your screen," and every time I'd climb up to the window, look all around the screen on the window, and get really mad, thinking i'd missed it.
I guess at some point I figured out they mean TELEVISION screen.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I used to believe that if I sat behind the tv set, my family could see me on the screen.— Jenny
- I used to belief that if you stood behind the TV, you would appear on the screen.— Gen Rodenis
- I used to believe that if I broke the glass on the tv screen, I could go into the tv show...— Karyne
- When I was little, I thought that if you stood behind the TV, you could see your insides on the screen.— C.W.
- I used to believe that people couls see you on the TV screen. I only changed when the commertials were on.Anon