I never discovered that I was breathing until I was about 9, when I held my breath in the car one time, then said to myself "whoa...so that's what breathing is...you do it to stay alive!!!" After that I became paranoid that I would stop breathing and just fall down dead one day.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you fart, your tummy was breathing!— Nicholas Orsmond
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- I used to think when you smelled a fart, that you were breathing in tiny pieces of poop.— brandypandy
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil