My grandmother told me when I was a child that, if I watch too much television my eyes would become permanently locked on the screen and I would “be stuck like that forever”. SO, whenever I watched TV or movies, I would divert my eyes every 3 or 4 minutes or so – either by closing them, hiding beneath a pillow or standing up in the middle of the room and facing the other way. There are whole swaths of children’s movies that I still have no idea how they ended or who most of the characters were.
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- When i was little my mum convinced me that if a cat spat in my eyes i would go permanently blind. — Louise Atkinson
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire
- I used to believe that when I went to movies people were behind the screen acting out the part — Amy
- I used to be told that if you watched too much TV your eyes would turn square. — Amy
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero