After stubbornly not leaving when ER came on TV, my mother tried to make me feel better about all the blood and gore by saying "it's ok, its not real"
For years after i thought blood and guts and even my brain wasnt real, and real people were hollow inside.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa
- i used to believe dragon ball z was real
and namek was in another dimension
and every show on tv was realAnon - when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- i used to believe that the telly tubbies were real because the rabbits are real!!— hotty
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- I used to believe that my sisters "make believe dog" was real— me