When I was young, my mother jokingly told me that cameras shoot out laser beams.
I believed that they would instantly desinigrate anything they hit so I was afraid of cameras until I was about 10.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my mom had surveillance cameras everywhere I went and could always see what I was doing— Mikhail
- When I was little, I thought there were tiny cameras everywhere and they belonged to the government.— Brooke
- When I was young I had a plan to shoot big piles of paper up to the sun so it would never burn out.— Waterbottle
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler