One for Sorrow

I believe it's possible that young children may believe that that characters in movies, tv, stories, etc., are real, though in a slightly different way that they know the "real" (tangible, physical) world to be. Particularly toddlers and really little kids, though I've even known older children (8, 9, 10) to still be accepting of the possibility that movie/tv characters are "real" in a strange way, even 'obviously' fake movie characters, like Godzilla. A couple of years ago I was watching a Godzilla movie with some kids (aged 4-9) and they asked if Godzilla was real. Just kidding, I told them yes, that Godzilla and the other big monsters and their families lived on Monster Island, which was close to Japan, and that they would go and film movies once in a while and then go back to their houses on Monster Island. Every one of those kids believed me! Their mother called me a week later in a sort of half amused/half annoyed mood and told me that she had to explain to her (now very disappointed) children that Monster Island wasn't real and they couldn't go there to see Godzilla and Godzuki and the other baby monsters. :)