I used to believe that people who got shot and died on all those 1970's police dramas on TV, actually died for real; that it was all part of the privilege of being on TV.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I used to believe that when we died (and animals) died they were picked up in a bus with there name on it.— Lawny
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ
- I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to XsAnon