I used to believe that if you played a pokemon game and traded pokemon with a link cable, there were real pokemon inside and if you broke the link cable they would jump out and you could become a real pokemon master.
Its a good thing i never tested this theory. my mum would have killed me.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the the tooth fairy was a Pokemon fan because she got me Pokemon Crystal for my lost tooth— Pokemon fan
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!— Lou V.
- 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 believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa