When I was very young I had an irrational fear that the world was about to run out of air. Selflessly I'd hold my breathe as oftern and as long as I could so that there'd be enough for everybody.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- I still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal
- You couldn't have your belly button covered for too long or it would be harder for you to breathe.— Jess
- I thought the lyrics to "Don't fear the reaper" were "Don't fear the reefer"— who new?
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!