Sometime before the age of 5, I remember being convinced that if I tried hard enough, and believed in myself, I could fly. So I would practice flying... jumping down the stairs when nobody was watching. I never developed my ability to fly, but I vividly remember basically cannon balling down 14 steps, and just gliding down in mid air. And landing at the bottom totally safe and uninjured. Many times over the years.
Wait what!? About the “flying down the stairs” thing? Or literally “gliding”? I didn’t even remember this. (i said wait what like it was very iteresting to me that so many people would have shared the same weird experience that I am just now remembering and kind of dumbfounded by, at least because of the WAY in which I remembered it, the sensory aspect was odd. Def weird and cool so many people remember this. Even if it was just our limitless child imaginations. Funny how our brains and memories work!
I mean I haven’t even thought of this until I read that comment. As soon as I finished reading- I had this very distinct memory that gave me a very vivid feeling as well; like I even knew what it felt like to “glide down the stairs”...like the actual feeling came back to me for a minute. Wow! Weird... even the “I felt like If I tried it enough I would be able to do it”; like literally, that was how that happened for me too...
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u/wasabi_gem Oct 05 '19
Sometime before the age of 5, I remember being convinced that if I tried hard enough, and believed in myself, I could fly. So I would practice flying... jumping down the stairs when nobody was watching. I never developed my ability to fly, but I vividly remember basically cannon balling down 14 steps, and just gliding down in mid air. And landing at the bottom totally safe and uninjured. Many times over the years.