For the longest time i thought that when you were playing video games and you versed the computer, an alarm went off, and someone out there would wake up and verse you (play against you)
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- 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 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
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon