When I was about 5 years old, my dad worked the graveyard shift. While I was watching him sleep, I noticed that the skin on his scalp looked kinda greenish (he had very fine black hair, which made the translucent skin on his scalp look green tinted to me). I asked my mom, "Why is daddy's head green?" She told me that he was an alien, and that he might make me fly around the room when he woke up. I sat by his bed, wide-eyed and excited for my alien father to wake up and use his powers to levitate me. My mom noticed me waiting by his bed, and she decided to tell me the truth... that daddy wasn't really an alien. I cried. A lot. I really wanted to fly around that bedroom.

Christa

One time when I was around five or six years old, my mother and I were going into an elevator, and the door started closing on my mom. I immediately leaped to the rescue, pushing the door open with my back. My mom walked in, and another lady already inside commented on how strong I was. From then on I believed I had super-strength, and would occasionally test to see if I still had it by bending spoons.

I also used to believe that everyone had magical powers, and that I would somehow learn to use them in a sudden epiphany at the age of sixteen. Sixteen came and went, and I still can't fling fireballs or conjure earthquakes... and sadly enough, I'm still waiting for that epiphany...

Veridianedge

When I was a kid my mother had a necklace that had black/ smokey quartz stone as a pendent and when you held it to your eye you could see light and shadows enhanced. I believed that if you looked through my mothers necklace then you could see all the evil in the world and that it was the only time that the evil couldn't see you.

Gabrielle Constantine

this lil kid was playin wit me and it was snowy and he and i were dragonballz fans so he was 5 or 4 and i was 10 and i told him i could do a kamehameha and he said show me so i said KA-ME and right there i put my hand back to reach some snow and i made a snowbal and said HA ME HA!!!!!!! and to this day its still really funny cuz he still shows off an tells his friends he knows a person that has power :)

hehehe muahahahaha

I used to believe that if i pushed against my eyeball in a certain way, i'd be able to see "white" ghosts.

I did this for a while before i realised that oddly enough, the "ghosts" would move in the direction i was looking whenever i turned my head.

Mike

I used to belive that I had x-ray vision. If I stared at something long enough I would be able to see right through it.

dave

when i was younger i thought if you couldn't see a person they couldn't see you. so i'd just close my eyes thinking they couldn't see me.

Anon

i used to believe that when you flapped your hands really fast you could fly which consiquently caused me to leap of a second story window flapping my arms like an idiot fortunately it had been a VERY wet month and i landed in a large muddy puddle

luke

when i was about o lets say like 6 or 7 i saw matilda the movie for the first time and i thought i could be like matilda if only i could read as many books as she did and so i started to read all these books except then i was only small and could only read books with like 4 words on every page so eventually i gave up and i havent watched matilda since as if that makes sense hahahaha

*flying carrots*

i used to have vivid dreams of being a bat and being able to fly. i thought that if i could just wake up before i was totally awake (and thus human) i would be able to "remember" how to fly. For quite a while I would wake up early in the morning and jump down a very steep flight of stairs. My parents never knew what was going on because i was only 3 and couldn't explain.

Abberatia

i used to believe that when mom are dad touched me they could tell what i was thinking and still sorta do even @age 12

elizabeth

Peter Pan used to be my favourite movie in the whole world. I used to believe that people can really fly if they just think happy thoughts. I tried thinking happy thoughts as hard as I could, but it didn't work. When my mom finally told me that Peter Pan was just a movie and people can't really fly, I cried and cried for a very long time.

Vannah

I used to believe your sternum protected your soul while you were alive, which looked kind of like a really bright yellow/white glowstick. I still sort of cling to that one, and I'm 26.

Stormy

When i was little i was sure i could see better then everyone else and see really far away, later in my life, I got glasses LOL

Anon

When my brother, sister and I were little kids, my parents had friends of theirs who lived in England come to visit us. After that, whenever my sister would get upset and cry, my brother and I would tell my sister that if she kept crying that would make our friends in England cry. For some reason she always stopped crying, but I could never figure out why they would cry if she did.

Anon