I don't know why, but I thought if I kept my legs together the whole night when I was sleeping, they'd join together and I'd turn into a mermaid!
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I wet my legs in the sea I would become a mermaid.
— andrea - When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- I belived that santa came every night to se if i was sleeping— david
- I used to believe that towels were sleeping ghosts, and at night they would come out and get you— bajd
- I used to believe my dolls would come to life at night and have a party while i was sleeping. — phil(: