I thought the people who were on TV didn't know they were on TV, and we were just secretly watching them go about their lives without their knowledge.
A childhood belief about being watched

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that they secretly had school on holidays and that I was the only one who didn't know.Anon
- It was common "knowledge" where I lived that if you picked dandelions then you would wet the bed.— Holly
- when i was about 5 or 6 i thought sombody was watching me on t.v like i was watching them. — leigha
- I used to believe that the credits at the end of a movie was a list of people in that were watching it.— jon_
- Atomatic toilets had people inside of them watching to see when you are done.Anon
I used to believe that some insects had twenty lives.LOLAnon