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Your lungs can take "deeper" - i.e. more voluminous breathes. A person sleeping lightly can breathe quite shallowly just fine, a person up and walking about (in
by XorNot 3y ago
Your lungs can take "deeper" - i.e. more voluminous breathes. A person sleeping lightly can breathe quite shallowly just fine, a person up and walking about (in decent shape) will breathe more deeply - professional athletes for example don't breathe as quickly as an unfit person.
Which is to say, it's too simplistic a model to talk about "breathing twice as fast" as explaining what's going on.
- scotty79 3y agoAh, yes, volume matters. I probably should have said "breath twice as much" not "twice as fast" but the rest still stands. And you probably breathe twice as much when you are walking than when you are at rest because moderate excercise (stationary bike) makes you breathe about thrice as much. I'm curious about nighttime vs daytime breathing. I was under the impression that sleeping person breaths deeper than resting person. At least you can tell the exact moment somebody falls asleep because they start to breath deeply and loudly.