when i was a kid i thought you stopped breathing when you fell asleep. when my mother would come in to check on me at naptime i held my breath - no wonder she always stood there so long!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil
- 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 when i fell asleep spiders would capture me and eat me.— SPIDERMAN
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep in the bathtub I would wake up in the sea.— Brenda