I used to think that, if you accidentally inhaled while you were blowing up a balloon, you would inflate just like it and start to float like in cartoons. Then when you exhaled you would fly around the room as you deflated.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- When i was young I used to believe if I ate ham fat I was going to inflate like a balloon— a guy
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- i used to belive that if you talked into a bubble while blowing into it it would say what you said before— austin franck
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T