As a teenager I read way too many books about ESP. For years I thought there were actually people walking around who could read my mind, every thought, just as I was thinking it. I was extremely paranoid.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- When I was little I would always say in my mind, "I know you can read my mind", just in caseAnon
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon
- For the longest time I was sure my cat could read my mind.Anon
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon
- After my dad read The Hobbit to us, when we were little, I thought that Gollum lived in the toilet. — PixelFish