tv

I used to believe once someone had been filmed for a tv programme or movie, their image could be manipulated to 'perform' in more tv programmes and films even after they were dead, simply because they had been caught on film once. I had mixed up something my grandmother had told me about television (I was only 8)

Naomi

When I was about 6 my dad was a presenter on T.V. Whenever his program was on I used to jump and wave and start talking to him! I still do even though I know it's not real!=^-^=

Kaya

I use to always believe that whenever you saw two people in a movie or on TV kissing, in a sex scene, etc., they had to be related. It would have been wrong if they weren't since then they would have been strangers.

D.W.

when i was younger i always thought tv was invented when i was born just for me, as a birthday present. which made me question what my parents did for fun before me?

chelsea

I used to believe that, if you were looking at the tv, and if there was a group of people and the camera was scanning along them, and if it went past someone you thought you knew, you could walk up to the tv and look into the screen sidway's and you would see them... teeheehee!

Anon

I used to believe that by simply writing the name of a movie on the white box on video cassettes, it would automatically be the movie.

Sylia

When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day

Amine

When I was around eight, I believed that all of the television channels existed inside the TV set like pages in a book, and if you flipped between them you were flipping the pages.

Emily

When I was a child, I used to believe a little person lived on my TV. And I wanted to have one.

kath

My mom and I were watching country music videos when I was little. Hank Williams JR. cussed in a song, and I walked up to the TV and started hitting the screen. I thought he was inside the TV, and I was giving him a spanking for cussing.

keyboardplayer

I used to believe that if I threw a tennis ball at my Tv screen it would break it and I could crawl inside and go into my favourite tv show and be part of it, playing with the characters and everything.

anony

I used to believe that when I watched TV, people were in there acting stuff out.

Jessica

I used to believe that Wombles (from the show 'Wombles of Wimbledon Common' - all you Brits should be familiar!) were real.
Now, I was a smart kid; I didn't think that Wombles really went around in clothes and talked and so on. But I thought that they were real creatures on which the show had been based.
We lived in Wimbledon at the time, and my mum would often take me to the Common to look for 'Wombles'. She was of course just playing along with the belief that real Wombles in clothes and hats were cleaning up the park. However, I was deadly serious about finding a 'real' Womble, which I imagined was a small scurrying mammal.
My mum was very amused when, at 18, I was talking about how we'd never seen an actual Womble at the Common in all those years. I was actually pretty saddened to learn there was no such thing.

Jai

last time when the television was on i thought the people were performing in it -.-

irritated kid

My dad was a handy-man, construction worker, and mechanic. Because he was always fixing things around the house and working on projects like re-building motorbikes, I thought he could build ANYTHING. I also REALLY loved cartoons. So one day, I had the greatest idea. I asked my dad to please build a button on the television that transported me into the cartoon I was watching when I pressed it. He rubbed my head and jokingly said he would do it. I actually thought he would.

feebs

I used to think when someone on TV said "brought to you by so and so company they were actually saying "brocktued by". It took me a while before I figured out brocktued wasn't a word.

Anon

When I was a kid, like 4 or 5 years old, I believed that i can broke a TV screen and then went through it to any place that was on the TV at the time.. I actually planed on really doing that when some big square with a lot of pigeons show up on a TV... :)

Bojan

when i was younger i used to believe that whenever i watched t.v or a movie especially the people acting or using their voices in the animation (or w/e) were doing it at the exact moment that i was watching it, like it was being recorded live and transmitted into my t.v. and i used to say to myself "wat a sad, sad job they must have- running to the studio every time someone wanted to see the movie...." hehehe silly 'ole me... :-D

i know i know im STILL a dork :-D

i used to believe that if you bought an old tv it would only play films or programmes from its era. made perfect sense at the time!

lynda, UK