I used to think when people died or got shot on t.v., that they really got hurt or died in real life. I used to think, "i wonder how he felt about having to get shot. Did he really want to die?"
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I use to beliee that if someone got shot or lost a limb in a movie they actually did in real life. Anon
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily