My favorite show was Sailor Moon when I was little, and I began hoping and hoping she was real. I was old enough to pretty much know, cartoon characters weren't real, but I kinda thought maybe she was. So I remember one night, actually several nights in a row, I left out a note saying "Sailor Moon, if you are real, please leave me something like your transformation brooch or your wand." Needless to say it never happened...much to my disappointment.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I used to think I was Sailor Moon— Emma
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- i used to believe dragon ball z was real
and namek was in another dimension
and every show on tv was realAnon - I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.— Corrine
- I used to believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa
- i used to believe that the telly tubbies were real because the rabbits are real!!— hotty