When I was younger my mom used to tell me that I could do anything I put my mind to. So, I would jump off the top of our slide and attempt to fly. When she would ask me what I was doing, I'd say that I was practicing to learn how to fly!
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- "Going to the jazz club in my mind"? Not me! "Going to Nebraska in my mind..."— Felix
- When I was little I would always say in my mind, "I know you can read my mind", just in caseAnon
- I once asked my mom when our cat would learn how to talk.— jenny zych
- I recently very disturbed to learn that Al Jolson was in fact Caucasian.Anon
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon