"If you think about how to breathe or breathing, your mind won't know what to do and you will stop breathing and die."

I'm pretty sure that's not true, because I am currently thinking about how to breathe and breathing and I am not yet dead. I've done it many times before.

Maybe that teacher was on something, but she seemed kind of off the mark.

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If so...then...

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I can actually see where shes coming from. I think you're missing the point.

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....Could you explain the point?

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Are you going like "Okay 1...2...3...4...5...BREATHE"

If so...then...

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No, I'm just like, "I'm breathing....this is interesting."

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Quote: from jamesish at 10:31 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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I can actually see where shes coming from.  I think you're missing the point.

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....Could you explain the point?

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I think she was getting at the point if you had to manually control your breathing.  Breathing now is pretty much automatic.  You breathe without even really thinking about it.  Imagine the difficulty if you had to control individually every breath.  And death would be easier.

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Quote: from MystiqueBeauty16 at 10:32 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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Quote: from jamesish at 10:31 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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I can actually see where shes coming from. I think you're missing the point.

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 ....Could you explain the point?

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I think she was getting at the point if you had to manually control your breathing. Breathing now is pretty much automatic. You breathe without even really thinking about it. Imagine the difficulty if you had to control individually every breath. And death would be easier.

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Yes, but that wasn't what she was talking about. She said if we thought about breathing, as in automatic, involuntary breathing. That's why she confused me.

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Quote: from jamesish at 10:37 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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Quote: from MystiqueBeauty16 at 10:32 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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Quote: from jamesish at 10:31 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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I can actually see where shes coming from.  I think you're missing the point.

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  ....Could you explain the point?

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 I think she was getting at the point if you had to manually control your breathing.  Breathing now is pretty much automatic.  You breathe without even really thinking about it.  Imagine the difficulty if you had to control individually every breath.  And death would be easier.

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Yes, but that wasn't what she was talking about. She said if we thought about breathing, as in automatic, involuntary breathing. That's why she confused me.

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Are you sure you have the quote right?

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Quote: from MystiqueBeauty16 at 10:40 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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Quote: from jamesish at 10:37 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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Quote: from MystiqueBeauty16 at 10:32 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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Quote: from jamesish at 10:31 pm on Oct. 14, 2008

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I can actually see where shes coming from. I think you're missing the point.

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  ....Could you explain the point?

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  I think she was getting at the point if you had to manually control your breathing. Breathing now is pretty much automatic. You breathe without even really thinking about it. Imagine the difficulty if you had to control individually every breath. And death would be easier.

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 Yes, but that wasn't what she was talking about. She said if we thought about breathing, as in automatic, involuntary breathing. That's why she confused me.

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Are you sure you have the quote right?

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Yea. I actually wrote it down four years ago in class when we were taking notes.

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Post edited at 5:15 pm on Oct. 15, 2008 by Forever Angel

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I would bet that what she told you was more like... if breathing wasn't something that was involuntarily controlled, ie... if we had to consciously control it, we wouldn't be able to do it and we'd suffocate.

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Again, no. Please read above posts. I copied her exact words in my notes four years ago, and I am copying directly from the notes.

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Quote: from Forever Angel at 8:14 pm on Oct. 15, 2008

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I would bet that what she told you was more like... if breathing wasn't something that was involuntarily controlled, ie... if we had to consciously control it, we wouldn't be able to do it and we'd suffocate.

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Again, no. Please read above posts. I copied her exact words in my notes four years ago, and I am copying directly from the notes.

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It's a physical and mental impossibility for you to think hard enough or long enough about breathing to have any lasting effect. Your 'mind' is not the part of the brain that normally controls "autonomous" functions of your body.

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