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I used to believe…

When I was around the age of three, I used to constantly play the Star Wars Super Nintendo game. When I lost, Darth Vader would pop up on the screen and breath really loud. The first time I saw him I screamed and ran to my mom, asking her who he was. She said, "That's Darth Vader. When you lose the game, he comes out of the screen and sucks your breath out." From this day on, I always shut off the system before that scene comes up...

I used to believe…

When I was about three, my brother would always make me watch Star Wars with him. He would pause the movie and ask me the characters' names, and I would say them. When he told me Luke Skywalker's name, my first response was, " Can he walk on the sky?" I believed that he could walk on the sky until I was about eight years old.

I used to pretend that the whole of reality was some sort of huge long movie about my own life. I can't remember whether or not I actually belived this. I do remember occationally doing a voice over like some kind of cosmic narrator,announcing the next great chapter in this epic. I have no idea who was supposed to be directing or producing this indulgent work of art. But, I wish I had thought to look into this at the time. For in retrospect, I would like to take the author of the sceenplay to task.

I used to believe…

When I was 6, and my family was watching a show I didn't like, I would sit on the floor in front of the tv and cover my face with my knees, and i thought no one else in the room couldn't see the tv either. lol. i was nuts.

I used to believe…

Back when I was two years old, I was afraid of my paternal grandfather when I was young because he was tall and intimidating. He also worked for his local PBS station. As a result, I used to think the PBS logo (the thing that looks like a dead-eyed bald head?) was a psycho killer hired by my grandpa because it looked exactly like him. It would stab me with that second head thing (?) to the right of it and finish the job with its sharp pointy nose, but if I looked at it in the mirror it wouldn't come out of the TV and hurt me. I also thought that if I didn't look at the right side of it, it wouldn't slice through the TV to destroy me. And when the announcer guy said "This is PBS," I thought it was the head thing's name, and the voiceover was introducing it. This fear persisted until I accidentally looked at it and didn't get stabbed.

I used to believe that if you blink at the same time as a cartoon character you'd turn into them. When I was three my favorite movie was "The Little Mermaid" and I wanted to turn into Ariel more than anything, so I'd watch it over and over so I'd blink at the same time as she would. No one caught on to this.

I used to think the little holes in the walls had little cameras there so then i tought that we were being secretly watched at all times

I used to think that when ever you turned the TV off, it would come back on to the same place when you turned it off.....weird!

I used to think little people were inside of the radio putting on a show for me.

I used to believe…

Around the age of 6 I was convinced that the world inside the TV was real, and the only barrier between that world and myself was the glass screen. I REALLY wanted to go inside that world to explore and play, and spent a long time trying to decide whether or not I should break the glass so I could jump inside. I remember sitting and weighing my decision. "If I break the tv screen, my grandmother will be extremely mad, but she won't be able to catch me, because I will jump inside TV land..... of course, she could follow me and find me..." In the end, I decided it wasn't worth the risk, thank God!

I used to believe…

From the age of 5 till about 8 ,i used to believe that there were little men inside the radio.Hence the sound coming out(like a miniture studio).but then i was a strange boy !!

I used to believe…

At the age of 9 I used to think that Superman was real, there was a cartoon version of Superman on the telly and I watched it all the time, I used to argue with people at school who watched Blue Peter, I said that Blue Peter wans't real but Superman was! Sad but true (the belief I mean...)

I used to believe…

Like most kids, I learned a lot of what I knew from TV, which includes a substantial amount of disinformation. One really scary episode of Family Matters led me to beleive that beepers (and pagers, since I didnt know the difference) were a dangerous commody linked to drug and gang activity. when my (already kinda scary) uncle's beeper went off at a family party, I freaked out and asked my dad if Uncle Joe was in a gang. My dad told me that he was and I thought he was some kind of Irish mobster for a long time.

I used to believe…

When I was about 6, my friend told me that if you ran fast enough you could go through the tv and end up in that show. Well I worked up enough enery to run really fast. I ran, I jumped, I crashed, I cryed. Owwww <(o.O)>

I used to believe…

When I was in Elementary school,every time I found out a boy liked me, I was CONVINCED he was hideing outside my window at night watching me.

I used to believe that you could not press buttons like "menu" or "enter" on the TV, or else it would make the TV explode or something bad. Then my sister told me she found out what the buttons did - made a little box come up. Boy was I relieved. :)