You can't turn back.

I wish I could speak Cat as well as my own language. 

Posted by: @silverlily

You can't turn back.

I wish I could speak Cat as well as my own language. 

Hey Presto! You speak Cat. Unfortunately you now know what your kitty really thinks of you and you get rather tired of hearing it! (I am a cat servant myself and love them, but....)

I wish I could get my house deep cleaned. 

Ta Da!!! You get a coupon to engage a whole team of cleaners at a reasonable price. But, alas, although your house is cleaned immaculately, you won't be able to find where you put so many of your favourite things, not for a long while whilst you live in a muddle.  

I wish that I could get rid of all these newspaper clippings I've kept for future consultation?

Tada! You're invisible. Sadly, now nobody believes your real. Whenever you try to talk, you scare people half to death. And when you try to communicate via writing, they believe in you until they find you're asking them to believe in something they can't see. Then they think it's a joke or worse. Sadly, most people are like that.

I wish I had ten times as much time to get stuff done.

Hooray, you do suddenly have ten times as much time to get stuff done, but it comes at the cost of having paid work to allow you to afford the extra time you need to get stuff done. 

I wish that I could turn back time to when I felt more active. 

Ta da, you've turned back time to when you've felt more active! However, you have no time or money to do the things you'd like to do with that extra energy.

I wish I could make some progress on some creative endeavours.

You've got what you asked for - progress on the creative endeavours, however - it is all for endeavours of other people!

I wish I could be a movie star.

Oh you've done it now. The fame comes with all of the love and hate of being a highly public person, so little privacy, stalkers falling in love with you, not to mention scammers pretending to be you to your fans...

I wish I could draw things as well as I envision them in my mind.

Ta da! Suddenly you find you can indeed draw things as well as you can envision them in your mind. Unfortunately, the magic won't last, so you won't be able to give up your day job to do nothing else but draw. 

I wish that our football team could win the competition for a fifth time.  

Your football team wins for the fifth time — but no more, because after that, for the next 25 years, every single Grand Final goes to the mighty CATTERS (Geelong Cats, for the uninitiated).   (And just to rub it in further, Sydney ends up with the "wooden spoon" each time. )

I wish I could fall asleep faster at night. 

Ta da! Your wish is granted, and a long, sleep-inducing audio podcast materialises, to lull you to sleep faster. The difficulty, however, is that it becomes far too effective, so that you have such a lovely soothing sleep that you find it difficult to wake up when your alarm goes off. You've missed, not only this year's finals but even the Grand Final.  

When I see that GWS (Greater Western Sydney) Giants have reached the 1st AFL elimination finals against Hawthorne for this year, I do so wish that this Sydney team manages somehow to go all the way, to triumph at the AFL Grand Final, THIS year.   

Your wish is granted!  GWS Giants wins the AFL Grand Final... BUT - you have to wait an extra week due to a draw on the last Saturday in September - and the rematch even needs to go into overtime and an extremely rare penalty shoot out to get the winner!

I wish that I could direct the Chronicles of Narnia movies!