On soap operas, they would show a couple kissing, then cut to commercial, then when they returned to the scene, they were in the bed "after," but I always thought that they just took a nap after kissing.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that kissing your elbow would make you change your sex when you woke up the next day.— Chuck
- I used to belive kissing boys made your teeth fall out.Anon
- I believed that kissing a toad would give you warts, but it never stopped me from a dare.— Kirstin
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- When I was about 6 or 7, I had an imaginary friend, who left for ice-cream one night. He never returned.— His name was Jimmy
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette