My mom told me when I was a kid that I ran so fast that I would lift off of the ground for a second.
I now tell my son the same thing, and he believes it.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to belive if someone liftes you up, and you lift them at the same time, you will float in the air.— D'Anthony
- My 5 year old daughter believes if she picks her nose her bum will fall off !!Anon
- I thought it was impossible for anyone to lift more than their own body weight. Just seemed to make sense..— Xenomorph
- Apparently from seeing EKG's on TV, my daughter believes people die when their heart stops "beeping."— Jager