body functions: special powers

I used to believe that I could breathe underwater. I mean, water has oxygen too, right? I distinctly remember laying face down in the pool in the back yard, and slooooowly breathing water in a bit at a time, until I was comfortable breathing underwater. I mean, I can still look back and REMEMBER doing this. I KNOW it's impossible, but.....

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.)

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.

My father was evil.

I used to watch the Wonder Woman live-action TV show, and when the show was over, I would spin around in the livingroom, like Wonder Woman did, thinking if I spun fast enough, I met get her swimsuit, the truth-telling lasso, and all her outfit.

Dad would encourage me while mother would scold him. "Keep spinning! Faster! I think I see the lasso!" "Gayle! Stop that! You'll make her so dizzy she'll get sick!" "I see the tiara! Keep going!"

I'd spin until I fell over onto the couch and couldn't stand up straight, and he'd tell me he was sure I'd get it next time. I totally believed him.

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.

I used to believe…

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"

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.

I used to think that if I hit myself hard enough in the right spot on my head, I could knock free the 80% of brain we don't use, and would become super-human. This resulted in many tragic childhood accidents involving books and walls

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!

One evening when I was about seven years old I accidentally zapped myself while plugging in a fan. I knew this was how people got super powers and was very disappointed when I was unable to conjure lightning or zap my sister at will. I figured I had not been zapped enough so I shocked myself several more times on purpose over the next year or two and to this day I am pathetically normal. Kind of.

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.

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!

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!

this girl i used to knoww told me that her dad was a werewolf. he used to take us home from dancing. she said that on a full moon, after turning into a werewolf he ate only girls with blonde hair.(im blonde) she told me not to worry though because i was nice to her.
you have no idea how i teated her like royalty whenver i saw her

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.

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!!

I used to think that I could control the weather. One year when i was 9 I said I want snow for christmas, we got so much snow that year that everyone was praticly traped in there homes... I swore never to use my powers again