My cousin told me that aliens could watch you through the television and the way you knew they were is that when the black and white television would turn off, it would go blank toward the middle, with that little white circle that would pause and disappear last.
A childhood belief about being watched

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that before color television, people only saw in black an white.— CD
- I used to believe that before color television the real world was in black and white. — Chris
- I use to believe that the world was black and white until color was invented for television.Anon
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- I used to think that the old days were actually black and white because of the old black and white pictures.— Leigh Taylor