After we learned about the human anatomy in like 3rd grade, I thought that it was your lungs that made your heart pump. So I figured, when you stopped breathing, your lungs stopped pumping your heart, and that's how you died.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believed that when I went to sleep my heart took a rest too, and didn't pump at all while I slept.— Lara
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass". — oops
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- I used to think that if you eat pig heart, you could grow another heart and be twice as healthier. Anon
- All through life, I always thought the lungs were located in your throat. I'm 25.— thelungs,man