My brother (older) used to tell me that if I stayed under water long enough that when I ran out of air in my lungs that I could breathe through my pancreas! Well, I tried one day at the public pool, while my brother held me under water. I never struggled, as I believed him as I inhaled my first lungfull of water. After I was "brought back" by the lifeguard I really believed that the only reason that I survived was that I was breathing through my pancreas. I told everybody!
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- when i was 4 i believed i could breathe under water, one day i decided to try it and woke up in the hospital!Anon
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic