Blogpost 2: Common Superpowers People Think They Have.

I'm sure that everyone of us had points in our lives wherein we believe that we have super powers hidden within us. We believed that we have special abilities that others don't and that is what differentiate us from the rest of the people. There are things we just can't explain and because of that we first conclude to believe in the super natural. Most of the people just base reality with their opinion, and not facts.


In my research, I have found an article about the top list of powers people think they have. The article is entitled " 4 'Superpowers' Everyone Thinks They Secretly Have " By Soren Bowie In the website " Cracked ". What are the super powers people think they secretly have? Let's find out.
controlling the outcome of professional sports is one of the superpowers people think they have.

The most craziest fans of anything in the world, are the sports fanatics. They do anything just to show support for their favorite team and they would do exactly anything for their team. In order to be a sports fan, you should be able to put your heart out in order to show support for your team. Now, going back to the topic. Most of the sports fans if not all, at one point, believed that if they wished for their team to win, they could make it happen. They believed that the outcome of the game could be determined by how much you wish your time to win. 

People love communicating with inanimate objects.

I'm sure that we all have experienced having troubles with your electronics, cars, gadgets. If we don't know what to do, sometimes we speak to these objects and kindly ask them to work already. If we are patient enough, we even talk to the objects until we could fix them and not destroy the object completely like what this guy did. I honestly had experienced this when my phone wasn't turning on. I almost cried because I was just a kid back then and I was lost in a place that I wasn't familiar with. It would be convenient if we could just ask our broken electronics and ask if it could just fix itself, or do commands we are too lazy to do ourselves.

Reading omens is one of the powers people think they have.

In classical times the reading of portents and omens was a matter of great political import. In Classical Rome the Augurs ability to foretell the future by taking of the Auspices through reading the flight of birds was utilized in strategizing wars, directing the lives of the people and in determining religious ceremony. In Celtic culture the Druids foretold the future through the growth and movement of trees. Throughout history and across all continents indigenous cultures have been known to rely on the art of divination through the reading of natural omens and signs. Unfortunately , over time, much of the art has taken a back burner to modern day life or have been forgotten all together. There are still religious groups and lay practitioners who work diligently to preserve and perfect these old ways, and resources exist for those who are interested in learning. The birds in the picture represents reading omens because it symbolizes witchcraft. Most people especially Filipinos think that they have the power to read omens because most of the elderly people think that signs of omens indicate that the omen or something else will really happen.



Causing disasters by joking about them is one of the powers people think they have.

I was on a cruise trip last vacation during which the captain joked over the intercom that we should all hold on tight because the ship was so full that the ship might just sink. He was booed after that unnecessary comment by a few passengers, and the woman seated in front of me made demands to another personnel that he be fired. She said, "He could have gotten us all killed. There are just some things you don't joke about unless you want them to happen."
At first I thought she was being ridiculous, but on the off chance that he really did have the ability to incite tragedy just by mentioning its possibility, then I agree with her that working in a floating steel tube is probably not the best job for him. Most people don't like joking about the bad happenings around us because they believe that doing so will trigger something in the reality thus making the occurrence real.

"The truth is, there's a little bit of crazy lady from 14D in all of us. We believe we have the power to jinx situations acknowledging the worst case scenario out loud, like atrocities are T. rexes that can only find us when we make noise. It's a movie universe rule that accidentally infiltrated our lives and saddled us all with the belief that we can curse trains into derailment and our friends into cancer just by thinking about it." Says the editor in cracked.com. It is not their fault if people believe in those type of stereotypical things that people say because I think it's human nature for people to say those kinds of things. It's natural for us to say what we believe in and there is nothing wrong with our opinion.

In my opinion, these aren't really superpowers. They are more like superstitions that people believe in. According the article that I read, which is entitled " The Psychology of Superstition " by Sarah Albert in the website " Webmd ". Not all rituals or beliefs are superstitions. "The dividing line is whether you give some kind of magical significance to the ritual" Says the author. It means that superstitions are only superstitions depending on your own opinion of super natural or magical to the ritual. For example, a basketball athlete like LeBron James has a pre-game ritual of blowing powder before his fans. It is not a superstition but if you tap the ball three times before shooting it, thinking that you will make the basket then you have ventured superstitious territory my friend. Is having super powers really just a superstition? Or can it be a reality?