I used to believe that you could hold your breath as long as you wanted. My dad could hold his breath for years. It seemed like years...unfortunately, I learned to tell time on a watch. Sooo, we are talking, maybe 1:40 seconds, tops.
A childhood belief about special powers

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
- when i was a kid i used to think farts were another person in my tummy talking and he had bad breath— JOEY
- When i was litle i used to think i only had to breath when i wanted to.— molly
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam