When I was about 5 or so, I remember believing that if I held my arms straight out to my side, and made figure 8's with them, I would start to lift up off of the ground and fly.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I remember back in sunday school that if you stomped on the ground you would hurt satan. Anon
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- I used to be believe that white sugar was made from ground up bones— shedrez
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that, by moving their branches from one side to another, trees made wind.— Pilar