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I used to believe…

When I was young there was a girl of 6 years old and she allways asked by watching the movies: " do they really kill all these people".

I used to believe…

When I was young, I used to believe that the songs that I heared on the radio, were realy put inside the radio, like a record or a tape.
I taught some man came around to do this, and that this happened when I was at school, because I never saw anyone doing this.

I used to believe…

Three movies shaped my fears for a lifetime. "IT" made me get rid of all my porcelian dolls and clowns. To this day clowns still frighten me a little. A movie I can't remember the damn of which was about how if you die in your dreams you die in real life. The movie was called something like dreamscapes or something like that. So everytime i was chased in a dream or started dreaming anything unusual I would panic and wake myself up. The movie "carrie" I was like 5 years old and was supposed to be cleaning my room and NOT watching the movie my mom was in the livingroom. I happened to bend down by my bedroom door to pick up a toy and looked up and across the livingroom at the tv screen and carrie reached her hand out of her grave. Needless to say I screamed and hid under my bed. It took forever to get over it and for a long time I would not watch horror movies. I also was afraid of funerals and graveyards for fear someone would reach out and grab me.

I used to believe…

when i was 4 i thought that when you shut the tv off, your program would stop right there where you left it, so you could come back later and continue...

but then my whole world was shattered the day my mom and i went to the store in the middle of Batman and then i came home to find the evening news running instead.

i still hate the evening news.

I used to believe…

A former colleague used to believe that the title of the show "Jim'll Fix It" referred to the presenter's name. He thought the show was presented by a guy called Jimall Fixit.

I used to believe that the people in the television could actually see you and knew what you were doing too. As a result, I never changed clotes in front of the television. :)

I used to believe…

At the end of the movie Gremlins, which scared me horribly as a child, it says "Always make sure to turn on the light, before you enter a room" in a creepy way. Well, I always would flick on the light with as little of me in the room as possible and thoroughly examine before entering. To this day I do that, in the same, peeking, scared way.

I used to believe…

When I was younger I believed that when watching tv tiny people lived inside my tv and when I turn on my tv they would just start acting. When I change the channel they would act out something else to see if I like it. And when I'd turn my tv off I thought they went to sleep.

I saw the first Star Wars movie in the theatre as a kid. For my fifth birthday, I went to see it again. I was very disappointed when the movie ended because I expected it to have a different ending the second time around.

I grew up in Huntsville, AL. My dad, like almost everyone's dad in Huntsville, worked in the aerospace industry. Our house was decorated with satellite pictures from space. So when I listened to the radio, I thought that all of the remote broadcasts (from supermarket openings, car dealerships, etc.) came from the moon.

I used to believe that when actors and actresses kissed each other their lips weren't really touching. I thought there was some kind of camera trick that made it look as if their lips touched.

I used to believe…

When I was young and wanted to watch movies that were a little more mature than I was - My father would tell me they were musicals and I wouldn't like them...

It wasn't until college that I found out Rocky, Flashdance, and Porky's were not musicals.

I used to believe…

You know how on PBS they usually say something like "this program was sponsored in part by viewers like you?" I thought "Viewers like you" was an actual company.

I also thought that TV was kind of like video, so that when i turned it off, i could turn it back on later and whatever show i'd been watching would start right where i'd left it.

I used to believe that commercials were live, and every time that a particular commercial was shown on television that the actors had to rush downtown and perform the commercial live. I always thought that the actors must have been REALLY skilled in order to do the exact same thing every time!

I used to believe…

Not my belief, but my son's. He's 3. He watches Blue's Clues religiously, and one night, thought that he could 'ski-doo' into a picture, just like blue and Steve. It was the middle of the night when he first tried this. I woke up to him singing the 'ski-doo' jingle, two seconds of silence, then about a half-hour of crying and trying to explain to him that he can't ski-doo!

I used to believe that the music on the radio was being played by live musicians in the studio. I was very confused when I passed an actual radio station and saw how small it was, and wondered how all those bands could fit inside.