Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath?
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t think so, but I’m certainly not an expert on the subject. However, I would think at worst you could hold it until you pass out. Once you pass out, your body would no longer consciously be purposely trying not to breathe, and you would then start breathing before you regain consciousness.
Logically that’s how I think it would go, at least.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m an expert! Apparently I was such a little bitch as a baby that I would get mad and hold my breath until I turned blue and passed out. Well, here I am 50+ years later.