When I was a kid, I thought that the only reason I couldn't fly or walk on water was because I just needed to practice.
It must run in the family, because my mother claims she used to think the same about levitating.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I took two showers becaue I thought my hair was a plant and needed the water to grow— Tim
- I used to believe I could walk on water— Junior....$...
- I thought that hot water couldn't put out fires.— Matt
- When I was a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(:
- My mum used to tell me that you couldn't drink water out of the tap from the bathroom as it was poisonous.Anon
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith