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I used to believe…

When i was a kid i saw a drawing representing a Proteus holding fire on his palm. That led me to believe for years that any fire seen on tv and movies is fake and cold to touch.

i have a friend how thought that news people from television really live in one, so every night whan were news he sit down really quietly and stare at television frightened .

I could never understand how Unsolved Mysteries would be able to film things as they happened, but that the police could never get there quick enough to find out what happened. It was years before I learned that they were recreations!

I used to believe…

After stubbornly not leaving when ER came on TV, my mother tried to make me feel better about all the blood and gore by saying "it's ok, its not real"

For years after i thought blood and guts and even my brain wasnt real, and real people were hollow inside.

I remember watching a baseball game and thinking that if a foul ball hit the TV camera, a baseball would come through the TV in every household that was watching that game. It seemed like this would be a great way to distribute certain items (like food) around the world.

I used to believe…

when I was younger we moved into the house I live in now. we weren't the first family to live in this house, and I thought that the two kids that lived in the house before me had put cameras in my room and the bathroom and I thought they were looking at me. I don't know why I thought this. hahaha.

I used to believe…

Wen i was little there was a commercial for ambesol (sp?) the gum numbing gel, where a woman was drinking orange juice and didnt enjoy it (i could tell by her facial expression) and the man in the commercial said "the agony". So i never liked orange juice with pulp in it only i never knew it was called pulp and i thought it was called agony! it wasnt until i told my mom i want the orange juice with no agony that i found out it was called pulp...

I used to believe…

When I was little, listening to country radio with my older sister, the DJ would say things like "And coming up we've got Shania Twain for you" etc etc... so I thought that they had all these rooms with the different bands in them and they switched back and forth when the song changed...

I used to believe…

once i told my bro when he was 6 i think that if you jumped into the tv you would actually be in whatever show you were watching. he tried it lets just say my parents were not too impressed

I used to believe that when you watched the tv, the people on the shows could see you at home through the screen, it took me a while to realise that wasn't the case. Also I used to believe every show was live and nothing was pre-recorded.

I have this glass door that leads out to the patio and at night time me and my friends would be scared to go near because we thought a creepy looking man was staring at us. To this day we still believe it.

I used to believe…

When I was about four or five, I believed that any animated Disney movie that I hadn't seen (or had seen, but remembered nothing of) was a scary movie. Some of the "scary" movies included Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, and Toy Story. Some of those movies I was "scared" of I still haven't watched, just cuz I never really want to.

I used to believe that if I went into the bathroom (I was like five or six years old), without anybody in the next room Chucky the evil doll from the movies, would sneak up behind me and kill me. I used to be really scared of Chucky, but I'm over it.

I used to believe…

When my dad told me that the CPU people in Super Smash Bros. Melee were 'computer controlled', I thought it meant that our computer told the gamecube about what to make the CPUs do if certain things happened. Because of this, whenever I won a fight against a CPU, I thought the computer was broken.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I was watching an old, old movie at my best friend's house. Her parents were there too. I decided to point out something obvious ].]

"Wow this movie is old."

"Why do you say that?"

"All the color's dried up and gone."

They looked at me and laughed.

I used to believe…

For several years I used to listen to the TV news reports of guerillas attacking people in Guatemala and Mozambique, but thought they were talking about gorillas.