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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you could have a superpower,
What would it be?
I'm thinking flying would be pretty nice. I dream about it often.

Thyla
(791 posts)Or at the least half of the nights.
unblock
(56,198 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The power of boundless compassion!
TygrBright
(21,362 posts)Anon-C
(3,440 posts)alittlelark
(19,139 posts)Or any statement.
SCantiGOP
(14,719 posts)You would go completely insane the first time you heard a Trump speech.
Ahpook
(2,777 posts)I love that series
unblock
(56,198 posts)qazplm135
(7,654 posts)money doesn't grow on trees you say?
Well, it does now.
FM123
(10,372 posts)I would start with November 8 2016 ....
The Velveteen Ocelot
(130,532 posts)I could have a lot of fun with that, especially if it operated over long distances.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)Dont ask!
SCantiGOP
(14,719 posts)If youre going to see into the showers in High School?
yuiyoshida
(45,409 posts)Ohiogal
(40,575 posts)CTyankee
(68,200 posts)Duppers
(28,469 posts)To change elections. If left to me, in my lifetime, we never would have had a Pres. Reagan or Bush-I or Bush-II and certainly no Pres. OrangeImbecile.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)To communicate fully in any language.
Bayard
(29,683 posts)All you need is a babel fish in your ear, ala' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Looks good but I have doubts about ordering it on Amazon.
Bayard
(29,683 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)See? I cannot even communicate effectively in this language.
Duppers
(28,469 posts)Posted above.
And, btw, I too have had dreams of flying. Vivid dreams. Psychologists tell us that we're trying to escape something...but I've been flying in my dreams since childhood.
MontanaMama
(24,722 posts)So does my kiddo. I believe it could be an out of body experience.
avebury
(11,196 posts)flying.
Imagine being able to teleport to London to see a show, the Caribbean to spend the day on the beach, to work and back (what a short commute that would be), and so on.
If I could have a second power it would be invisibility. Imagine being able to teleport into the WH and record what does on and then put it out on the internet. Imagine being able to sneak in and take pictures of who know what documents (think tax returns from the IRS).
RobinA
(10,478 posts)That's the one I've always wanted.
LuckyCharms
(22,648 posts)Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)Then I would stalk the most evil people in the world, climb into their mouths undetected while they slept, revert to normal size in a nano second, explode them, shrink back and move on.
Creative, eh?
MontanaMama
(24,722 posts)Thatd be amazing. If I couldnt have telekinesis, Id settle for a full night of sleep without having to pee or worry about what MF45 ruined while I slept.
Anon-C
(3,440 posts)RockRaven
(19,368 posts)but the dream was me flying the route home from school (which I normally walked or biked). And I followed the streets I usually travelled, instead of as-a-crow-flying it, just at varying heights...
But if I had to pick *one* superpower, and not trying to be cheat-y by being overly vague... I think being invulnerable to physical trauma (i.e. kinetic energy) would be very useful -- you would be bullet-proof (sadly a useful thing to be in America), you could stop any street-fight you saw without danger from fist or foot or knife or gun, you could run into traffic to save pedestrians or pets without risk to yourself, you could take up all kinds of hobbies which otherwise seem insane/imprudent like free-climbing and various extreme sports... I'm sure if I thought about it longer I'd change my mind, but off the top of my head that one seems good.
Karadeniz
(24,746 posts)lindysalsagal
(22,910 posts)Some will do just about anything to avoid it, dismiss it, excuse it, minimize it, rationalize it...
Fyrefox
(334 posts)I'd love to have telekinesis or pyrokinesis. Being a mental dominant would be great, too!
Bayard
(29,683 posts)I think being able to actually communicate with animals would be wonderful. As would being able to heal the planet.....reverse climate change, freeze war and hate.