I used to watch my brother play Half-Life on the computer when I was young and I always thought I saw some sort of alien torturing a guy and he yelling "No! Don't put my head in the washing machine!"
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah
- I thought the ball-headed person in the Bic logo was an alien and communicated using alien-like noises.Anon
- When I was young I used to believe that when it is raining God is crying or washing dishes.Anon
- When I was 7 my brother told me that when the space of the computer runs out it will explode.— Sam
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen