when i was a child there was this tv ad with a man sitting in lotos (yoga) position. he closed his eyes and slowly left the ground, and when he hovered about 50 cm above the ground, a voice said: "es geht!" ("it works!")
i used to believe that if i tried hard enaugh i would one day learn how the trick worked and then i'd be able to fly...
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL
- i used to believe that planes did not fly the ground just moved.— bob the pinecreek
- I used to believe that snow on the ground was clouds that were too tired to fly.— alex
- I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.— Sammy