special powers

If I practiced hard enough...I could use the force. I would concentrate really hard, hold out my hand, squeeze my eyes shut, and try to move things across the room. I was really bummed when it never worked.

Anon

I believed that if you climbed high enough and jumped.. you could fly. And if you didn't climb far enough youd always land on your feet like dogs do.

Jillian

I used to believe that if I moved my arms quickly with feather-dusters in hand, and jumped off my couch, I'd fly. (many hours of my childhood were spent attempting exactly that)

Ryn

As a child, I believed that when I closed my eyes to sleep, I was carried out of my bed, into the air and flew around. If I could open my eyes fast enough, I would be flying in mid-air. But I could never get my eyes open fast enough or even just get a little peek so I could prove it (at least to myself)

Anon

When I was small, my older brother convinced me that if I closed my eyes, I became invisible. I belived this was true until one day I showed my friend my "powers" only for her to say that she could still see me.

Lauren

I used to belive that if i sat criss crossed in my front lawn and then walked around on my knees for 15 minutes and then climb a tree and jump out of it.. I would be able to fly...but instead i was given a broken arm..

kirsten

I used to believe that when you jumped the only reason you got in the air was because you kicked the whole world below you and every time you jumped the world would get lower.

shro

i thought if you belived hard enogh you could have supper powers

lizzy

When i was very young i believed that i could turn on the light by blinking because when i walked into a room and did so one of my parents would turn on the light.

Short Stuf

Me and my friend were watching this really annoying kid, and we told him if he ran fast enough he would turn invisible and could run through things. So he started running and ran into the couch, but we told him he just wasn't running fast enough.

Nameless

Once when i was fairly young, my family and i were in Hawaii. We were spending the day on a beutiful beach and i asked my mom if i could take a picture. She told me to take a picture with my mind. So, for a while, I thought that I could take a picture when i blinked. After I died, God and i would walk along a beach and a slide show of all my "pictures" would play in the sky.

Dani

I have the oddest memory from when I was about 3 years old and in a crib (yes I remember that far back!):

When I was 3, this is how my bed time schedule worked: Mom comes in, kisses me and says she'll see me in the morning. Dad comes in, gives me Teddy Grahms, and kissed me good night. Well one night I decided I didn't want to sleep. So i closed my eyes really tight and wished that it'd be morning (Which took about 5 seconds) as soon as I opened my eyes again, my mom came in my room and said "Wow, last night went fast huh?" I thought that I actually changed the night to day!

Becky

I used to think that new shoes had special powers to make you run faster. I remember going to a family reunion at a park with lots of hills. And I had a brand new pair of shoes. I would run down the hills racing my cousins and was so proud of how fast my new shoes would make me go.

Sherry Scheuerman

A couple years back there use to be a tv show called, Lambchops. So I'd watch it everyday at the same time. One day the show was about believing in something hard enough and it will happen. The lady tried to demonstrate to the viewers by saying if she concentrated on flying it would happen, and on the show she did (her feet lifted off the ground about an inch).....WELL this really screwed up my way of life. I can't even remember all the countless hours I spent for years as a child trying to get my feet lifted off the ground...I use to think there was a special trick to it or something!!

Ben

I used to believe that if you jumped off your bed and flapped your arms efficiently you had to be capable of achieving lift and could thoretically, yet briefly, sustain flight over your bedroom.

Unfortunatley, this only worked a few times in my dreams and the actual realtime simulation attemps accumulating around age 9 were unfortunately completely unsucessfull....I started exercising more after that because I calculated that I (my body) was the only possible reason my attempt at flight had failed this time...(next" part II - I did it - my room looks so big from up here! :> )

1965 Normal So. California Kid

When younger,while watching a thriller; in which a cop happened to remark:that the intended victim(a blindman)had an unfair advantage - he could see in the dark.Hence I took it as granted that all blind people could see in the dark...

Martin