I used to believe that when I turned off the tv (for dinner, to go to bed, etc), the program would pause and would be available when I turned it back on.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to believe that everyone died when they turned 40. — Sara
- i used to believe everybody died once they turned 100— mis-spent youth
- i used to think that when i turned 5 i would become a boy because 5 sounded like a boy age.Anon
- I used to believe that when somebody turned 16, that they HAD to drive then, without a choice.— kat