I use to believe that if you stared at the sun long enough, (the more painful the better) you would eventually get laser powered eyes like on Superman. I don't know where I got this idea from but it didn't do my eeys any hram ;-)
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.— silvia
- 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 think if you stared long enough at the sun (until it looked blue) you could kill it— sean
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J
- I used to think that cars were powered by a jet of air which came out of the exhaust.— BadDeal