When I was about five or six, my mom told me that there was a machine that I could plug into my belly button and let me fly around my room. I had no idea she was joking and I really thought that this machine existed for about a year or so.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- i thought an ATM machine was something which gave free money!!— Armani
- That song that goes:
I'll never let you go...
I thought he was singing:
Another machine gun...
Haha.— Kelle - I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah
- I used to believe my bedroom closet was actually a time machine.— Carrie