If you’re very focused but also relaxed, I think the urge to breathe can be delayed a lot longer than most people realize. When free diving, a major component o

If you’re very focused but also relaxed, I think the urge to breathe can be delayed a lot longer than most people realize. When free diving, a major component of extending your dives is not dramatically improving your oxygen capacity but learning to relax and utilize oxygen better. Concentration and relaxation go an impressive distance in improving breath holds. So I don’t think people forget to breathe, but it could be that we substantially delay breathing sometimes and it seems out of the ordinary, longer than someone normally might, and therefor strange. But maybe it’s not? I’m not sure.