I used to believe nobody moved or breathed when they slept... so when I pretended to be asleep I would hold my breath and 'talk in my dreams' to cover up my breathing!
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 child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- 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 thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon
- I used to think farts were air you had breathed in and out loads of times and was 'used'Anon