When I was a child I used to believe that characters in movies, commercials, or television shows were showing real stories. Also, I used to believe that a person was following people to film them.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that movies and series were real.Anon
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- When a grown-up is shown as a child, it was actually them, and the film took 20+ years to produceAnon
- I used to believe that before color television the real world was in black and white. — Chris