When I was little, my dad told me that if I held my breath long enough I would turn inside out. So I would hold my breath till my face was almost purple. When I let the air out, my dad would say, "You were so close, try again!"
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon
- I still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal