special powers

I truly believed that if a friend and I both laid on the floor in a straight line with the soles of our feet touching, we could walk straight up into the air. I'd pick up my right foot and my friend would pick up her left, then we'd just be able to "walk" up as far as we'd like. (It never did work.)

K.C.

My mother told me this about my brother.

He used to watch the Superman live-action TV show and thought if he had a cape, he could fly. But there was a condition.

Superman, on TV, his cape always was straight as a board. So when Rob would tie a towel around his neck, he thought if he could run fast enough that the towel would fly out straight as a board behind him, he could fly while holding his arms out.

But how would he know if the towel-cape was straight if he didn't look back to check on it now and again? That's when he turned to look back at his towel-cape and ran into a tree... You must always watch where you're going.

Maxi Rose

I believed that if you did it just right, you could fly. I remember using capes and flapping my arms and jumping off picnic tables..

Jo Ann

I used to believe that I could fly. When I was very small, we lived in a fifth floor walk-up. I believed that all I had to do was put my hand on the banister and I flew up all five flights. The funny thing is, I still have distinct memories of doing this. I am 55 years old.

Madelon

wen i was small i used to believe that if i swam long ehoufh i will grow a tail and turn into a mermaid...i tried really hard , especially after seeing th cartoon film "the little mermaid"

Anon

I used to believe that if you took a broom outside and said, "Star Light Star bright the first Star I see tonight I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight. I leaned the broom against a ladder and wished that it would become a flying broom. It never did (but I learned from a friend it was because I looked back for a second time at the star I'd made the wish on. That made the wish null and void.) I have yet to be able to NOT look at that star after I've made my wish.

Poody

I used to believe that I and my cousins were witches with special powers and we could fly and make things move with our mind.

Shawna Lanne

I used to believe that my father could make it stop raining, because one day he stepped outside during a hawaiian shower and said "I command you to stop" Low and behold the rain stopped. Of course now that I live in Hawaii, I realize that he had a 75/25 chance that it would stop, as our showers are short!
But for many years, I was a true believer!

Debbie

I used to believe that adults had necklaces, sort of like amulets, which allowed them to hear other people's thoughts. It therefore made sense that my parents were always saying they knew what we were thinking.

Emily

I use to believe that if I covered my eyes with my hands that I would become invisible. I guess I thought that if I couldn't see anybody than no one could see me. I remember being surpised when I hid in the closet because I was naughty and had my hands covering my eyes and my mom still found me!

Angela

When I was very young my father told me that if you kissed your elbow you would change into the opposite sex. He said that that was why he was a boy now. I believed him! I tried for a long time to kiss my elbow. I now realize that the female sex is superior!

Eilol

I used to think that if I put my hands around my eyes real close...along with blinking my eyes really fast and moving my hand like a movie projector alongside my head would make everything I saw stay in my head forever...like a home movie.

Anon

I had just gotten a new perm and a few days later, the back of my neck itched like CRAZY!! I kept itching it until my dad told me he had a magic finger.

He rubbed his magic finger on the back of my neck where it itched...and it never itched again!!

Anon

I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once

Minimania

When I was about 8 I thought that you could make a wish and it would come true. But only occasionally. If you did it too much or asked for something outlandish then it wouldn't work.

Everyone could do this by spending their "luck". Everybody had so much luck, and they could spend it as they wanted to, but if they ever ran out they wouldn't have any luck left if an emergency happened. Your luck is used in life (consciously or not) when something really good happens to you without your direct intervention. Naturally I correlated this personal luck to any particularly beneficial or serendipitous event, and felt cautious afterwards since that meant my current luck supply had now reduced by some amount.

To save "luck" I always waited a long time between wishes and only wished for small things, like winning at a video game or something. Spending more luck meant you could accomplish more with that wish. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, it all depended on how effectively my luck was working that day. I never thought about where these wishes or the luck came from, that's just how it was.

Oh yeah, and there was my biggest "big" wish: for a beautiful girl to materialize out of a magazine picture and kiss me. Wow, I had saved up a year's worth of luck for that one. Needless to say, I was disappointed, and went to bed completely frustrated at all that wasted luck. Then years later in high school, some girl asked me out who looked eerily like the one in the picture. The recollection hit me after our first kiss.

Ep: We were blissfully in love until the inevitably tearful college separation, but I'd say it was worth all that luck in the end.

"heart luck" W.A.R.