As the daughter of someone who obsessively taped television specials, I and my sister used to believe that all that needed to be done to create a videotape would be to attach a label and write the name of the video on it.
We were confused why writing "Cinderella" on a blank tape resulted in mere static.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- I used to think that mere marrying will lead to child birth,till i was 10.— dan
- I used to believe that when there was static on the tv, it would be showing the inside of your body.— Dr.Starr2.0
- I used to believe that God was the fairy godmother from Disney's Cinderella.— Danielle