When I was little I used to think there was a real person controlling the video games as I played them. I would sometimes even talk to them and tell them to go easy on me and stuff.
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- when i played pretend i always wanted to be the animal. i didnt want to b a person cause their boring lol— Melissa
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- When I was kid, I used to believe my toys were real, and , when I was out, they used to talk together.Anon
- I used to believe that God was like a puppeteer, controlling every single movement we made. — Carrie C. in PA