I thought that when you went underwater, the rather cavernous part of your nose would still hold some air in it, and that I could survive underwater by taking really shallow breaths. I used to have dreams about it all the time, and if I breathed shallow for long enough, I could breathe normally.
I tried it all the time at the lake we would go to, and I wonder why I never drowned.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- 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 thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill