When I was little, I had a small change purse, and I was convinced that when I swam, breathing into in would let me breath underwater. Needless to say, it didn't work out a lot.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I could never work out how they used to change the bands over so quickly when i listened to the radio— graham
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I used to believe my mom kept a lizard in her purse that would bite me if I got into it.Anon
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to believe that i swam more than 2 hours I would become a mermaid.— M11cazares
- I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.— G