special powers

I used to believe that my father could make it stop raining, because one day he stepped outside during a hawaiian shower and said "I command you to stop" Low and behold the rain stopped. Of course now that I live in Hawaii, I realize that he had a 75/25 chance that it would stop, as our showers are short!
But for many years, I was a true believer!

Debbie

I used to believe that adults had necklaces, sort of like amulets, which allowed them to hear other people's thoughts. It therefore made sense that my parents were always saying they knew what we were thinking.

Emily

I use to believe that if I covered my eyes with my hands that I would become invisible. I guess I thought that if I couldn't see anybody than no one could see me. I remember being surpised when I hid in the closet because I was naughty and had my hands covering my eyes and my mom still found me!

Angela

When I was very young my father told me that if you kissed your elbow you would change into the opposite sex. He said that that was why he was a boy now. I believed him! I tried for a long time to kiss my elbow. I now realize that the female sex is superior!

Eilol

I used to think that if I put my hands around my eyes real close...along with blinking my eyes really fast and moving my hand like a movie projector alongside my head would make everything I saw stay in my head forever...like a home movie.

Anon

I had just gotten a new perm and a few days later, the back of my neck itched like CRAZY!! I kept itching it until my dad told me he had a magic finger.

He rubbed his magic finger on the back of my neck where it itched...and it never itched again!!

Anon

I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once

Minimania

When I was about 8 I thought that you could make a wish and it would come true. But only occasionally. If you did it too much or asked for something outlandish then it wouldn't work.

Everyone could do this by spending their "luck". Everybody had so much luck, and they could spend it as they wanted to, but if they ever ran out they wouldn't have any luck left if an emergency happened. Your luck is used in life (consciously or not) when something really good happens to you without your direct intervention. Naturally I correlated this personal luck to any particularly beneficial or serendipitous event, and felt cautious afterwards since that meant my current luck supply had now reduced by some amount.

To save "luck" I always waited a long time between wishes and only wished for small things, like winning at a video game or something. Spending more luck meant you could accomplish more with that wish. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, it all depended on how effectively my luck was working that day. I never thought about where these wishes or the luck came from, that's just how it was.

Oh yeah, and there was my biggest "big" wish: for a beautiful girl to materialize out of a magazine picture and kiss me. Wow, I had saved up a year's worth of luck for that one. Needless to say, I was disappointed, and went to bed completely frustrated at all that wasted luck. Then years later in high school, some girl asked me out who looked eerily like the one in the picture. The recollection hit me after our first kiss.

Ep: We were blissfully in love until the inevitably tearful college separation, but I'd say it was worth all that luck in the end.

"heart luck" W.A.R.

When I was young, maybe 6 or 7, I believed that I was psychic and could predict which way my sandal would land if I kicked it off (right side up or not). My Uncle Michael pointed out that it landed the same way almost every time. He's also the one that told me there is no Santa.

Sibyana

One lackadaisical day at home, after one of my many siblings birthday parties, there was an old helium birthday balloon kind of hovering in air. I took to laying on the couch and focusing all my "mind energy" on the balloon. At that exact moment a door shut in another room thus causing the balloon to sway a bit.

My dad told me a had something called Telekinesis, which meant I had the rare ability to move things with my mind.

Unfortunately when I told my 2nd grade teacher that I could move things with my mind she made me put my money where my mouth is.

I wasn't able to produce...

Jeremy

I used to believe that if I tried hard enough and concentrated, I could actually "float" off the roof of my Mom's house and land softly in the grass. After the first time I tried the 12-foot jump, I quickly dispelled that belief.

Eric Lindstrom

I used to believe that I could 'fly' at about 6 inches off the ground. I'd do this by holding my breath in my bloated out cheeks and doing a kind of breaststroke movement with arms and legs.

Steve

I used to believe that my eyes had special powers because after looking at a bright light for awhile then blinking i saw stars.

Michael

I was convinced my Mom could see through floors and across miles as
she always seemed to know what the heck I was doing that wasn't right.
I was Fifteen and had gone upstairs to bed with a flashlight and comic
book being very careful to tuck the covers in tightly so nothing could be
seen. After ten minutes I heard my mom call my name from "downstairs."
I quickly turned out the flashlight and hid the book under the pillow, threw
the covers back and calmly answered "Yes Mamm", and from downstairs
she hollered up "Turn off the flashlight, put up the comic book and go to sleep"
All I could say was "Yes Mamm". Yeah I was convinced all my life.

Cheri Lewis

I thought if I wished hard enough that some day Natalie Wood would actually become my big sister and then she'd come move in with us. Alternatively, I believed that somehow I could some day magically turn myself into her. Not just be LIKE her, but actually really BE her...

Kim...