When I was a kid, I convinced myself that I was psychic by staring at a ball of crumpled tissue paper and 'making' it move.
It was windy that day.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon
- I used to believe that the red dot on Indian people's foreheads meant that they had psychic powers.— Mark
- I once thought that there were little mice under the wheel on Wheel of Fortune making the wheel move— Kara