In an episode of the tv show "The Flying Nun", sally field explains her ability to fly is because of several factors, one of which was how much she weighed. I immediately ran into the bathrom to measure myself on the scales, in the belief that if I also wieghed that amount there may be a chance that I could fly.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that contact lenses were made out of fish scales— ddm
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli
- i used to believe that if i was good at school, i had a chance of becoming the queen????— donia
- I believed you could dry your hands with hot water, until i got a chance to try it.— A A RENN
- When i was a kid, i thought that nematodes would eat our house like in one episode of SpongeBobAnon
- I used to believe that we had a finite amount of skin and that I would eventually run out due to pealing.Anon