When I was little I once heard someone stating that each breath we take brings us one step closer to our death. So I figured that we each had a preset (but unknown) numbers of breaths we could take before we died, so if I learned how to make each breath last a really long time I could live for hundreds of years.
A childhood belief about general
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 thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - A friend on mine thought that smoking menthal cigarettes would make his breath minty fresh.Anon
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- When i was litle i used to think i only had to breath when i wanted to.— molly
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus