I used to think that when people are asleep, they dont breathe, like when they are dead. I would hold my breath everynight until I either passed out, or fell asleep from boredom of trying to hold my breath.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal
- 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 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
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep lying on my front that my boobs wouldn't grow. And they didn't.— Booey