I used to believe I could walk on air if I didn't look down. Cartoon characters would run off of cliff and hang in the air until they looked down. I climbed on a chair, looked straight ahead and walked off. I learned I needed to fight my instinct to look down. After the second time my mom kept an eye on me to see why I kept hurting myself. She caught me doing it a third time.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- I used to believe that north was always straight ahead. I could never face south, but I knew it was behind me!— Bruces
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- I used to think the song "Hang on sloopy" was "hang on snoopy"— gina
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda