I used to believe that if I pulled on my shorts upwards, that I could lift off the ground and hover. I actually believed this so hard I have memories of hovering above the ground as real as any of my other memories from that age (below 6).
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
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- 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