I used to believe that the people in magazines and books could see me if their faces were visible. Needless to say, if I wanted to read in the bathroom, I would cover their pictures with my hand and as an added precaution, would always drape a towel over my lap... in the same vein, I thought the authors of books I read and the musicians on the music I listened to could see me, and I tried to never do anything that would embarrass them.
A childhood belief about being watched
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you listened to to music upside down the music would be backwards— HOopty
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon