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If you could have a superpower, (Original Post) Bayard Sep 2019 OP
The ability to get my kids asleep by 9pm every night. Thyla Sep 2019 #1
oh, come on. there has to be *some* degree of realism to this game! unblock Sep 2019 #4
I would like... Newest Reality Sep 2019 #2
This, yep. n/t TygrBright Sep 2019 #10
Wow! Anon-C Sep 2019 #32
To see the pure truth in any situation alittlelark Sep 2019 #3
No no no SCantiGOP Sep 2019 #22
Twilight Zone had an episode like that? Ahpook Sep 2019 #24
i would like the power to restore democracy. unblock Sep 2019 #5
transmutation qazplm135 Sep 2019 #6
Turning back time! FM123 Sep 2019 #7
Telekinesis. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #8
X-ray vision! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2019 #9
Don't you also need time travel SCantiGOP Sep 2019 #31
I would love to be a Green Lantern! yuiyoshida Sep 2019 #11
Make myself invisible. Ohiogal Sep 2019 #12
To go back in time and change the outcome of the 2016 election...dunno how but... CTyankee Sep 2019 #13
I'd go back in time and would have the power Duppers Sep 2019 #16
To communicate fully in any language. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #14
That's easy! Bayard Sep 2019 #15
Looks good but I have doubts about ordering it on Amazon. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #18
The movie or the babel fish? Bayard Sep 2019 #20
See? I cannot even communicate effectively in this language. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #21
Power to change election results. Duppers Sep 2019 #17
Me too. Often. MontanaMama Sep 2019 #27
Teleportion - so much more efficient then avebury Sep 2019 #19
Invisible RobinA Sep 2019 #23
An uninterrupted urine stream. LuckyCharms Sep 2019 #25
To shrink to the size of a flea Generic Brad Sep 2019 #26
Telekinesis. MontanaMama Sep 2019 #28
Omniscience and Omnipotence. Anon-C Sep 2019 #29
When I was a kid I had a recurring dream I could fly (Peter Pan/Superman style)... RockRaven Sep 2019 #30
Healing Karadeniz Sep 2019 #33
Making people see/hear the truth. lindysalsagal Sep 2019 #34
Stephen King rules! Fyrefox Sep 2019 #35
In addition to flying.... Bayard Sep 2019 #36
The power to remember everything I read and pick up skills incredibly quickly. IrishEyes Sep 2019 #37
flying and TIME TRAVEL !!!!! trueblue2007 Sep 2019 #38

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
16. I'd go back in time and would have the power
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 02:15 PM
Sep 2019

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

(36,747 posts)
18. Looks good but I have doubts about ordering it on Amazon.
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 03:16 PM
Sep 2019

Looks good but I have doubts about ordering it on Amazon.

keithbvadu2

(36,747 posts)
21. See? I cannot even communicate effectively in this language.
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 05:04 PM
Sep 2019

See? I cannot even communicate effectively in this language.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
17. Power to change election results.
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 02:22 PM
Sep 2019

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.



avebury

(10,952 posts)
19. Teleportion - so much more efficient then
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 03:54 PM
Sep 2019

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).

Generic Brad

(14,274 posts)
26. To shrink to the size of a flea
Tue Sep 17, 2019, 11:28 PM
Sep 2019

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

(23,302 posts)
28. Telekinesis.
Tue Sep 17, 2019, 11:35 PM
Sep 2019

That’d be amazing. If I couldn’t have telekinesis, I’d settle for a full night of sleep without having to pee or worry about what MF45 ruined while I slept.

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
30. When I was a kid I had a recurring dream I could fly (Peter Pan/Superman style)...
Tue Sep 17, 2019, 11:45 PM
Sep 2019

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.

lindysalsagal

(20,648 posts)
34. Making people see/hear the truth.
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 12:13 AM
Sep 2019

Some will do just about anything to avoid it, dismiss it, excuse it, minimize it, rationalize it...

Fyrefox

(300 posts)
35. Stephen King rules!
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 06:58 AM
Sep 2019

I'd love to have telekinesis or pyrokinesis. Being a mental dominant would be great, too!

Bayard

(22,048 posts)
36. In addition to flying....
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 10:51 AM
Sep 2019

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.

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