I used to believe that if you sat too close to the TV then your brain would melt and you would die.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c. - The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!— Helen, Cumbria
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris