when i was little i thought to get to sleep, you had to close your eyes and hold your breath. if i couldnt sleep i would lay in bed trying to hold my breath over and over again and trying to remember how i did it the night before.
A childhood belief about sleeping

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
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- I still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal
- I remember once a friend of mine told me that when ever you hold in your pee it would make your balls stronger— Zao
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon
- I used to think that the sleep in my eyes at the breakfast table were toast crumbs.— crawford