I used to believe that when you turned off the tv all the people inside on the show you were watching stopped what they were doing and waited until you turned it back on to finish what they were saying.
A childhood belief about tv shows

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
- the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really
- When I was a kid, I used to believe if you were watching TV, and you turned it off, it paused.Anon
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to think that there were small people on TV who worked when I turned on the TV— JAVIER