i used to believe that i could move object with my eyes, so once in a moving car, i thought i could move a cherrio. SO i stared and stared and then the car bumped and the cherrio moved and i thought i moved it!
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.— silvia
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- I used to think that when you moved, you SWITCHED houses with the person who moved out.— Sheippe
- when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- I also used to think if you stared at a mantis you would be paralyzed forever.
— inma d