swallow or saliva accumulation
When I was a child I would swallow hard when I was looking at things I liked or wanted to be like. The harder the swallow the more likely it was for that wish or aspiration to come true. Conversely, I couldn’t swallow at all when I was looking at something I didn’t like for fear of ‘catching’ the bad thing. For example, watching a documentary on an illness would require me to not swallow at all while watching it (or having to leave the room to swallow); and looking at a photo of an expensive, vast mansion would have me swallowing like mad. I don’t know what started it, but thankfully I don’t do it any more… only very occasionally I’ll catch myself doing it again.
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thats kind of adorable
I did (er, do) something like this. Instead of not swallowing when there was something I didn’t like or didn’t want to be, I would hold my breath.
That is awesome. The way a kid’s mind works…
OH MY GOD! i did exactly the same, although most of the time it was with breathing in/ out. i hated it, and only managed to stop a few years ago!
This makes perfect sense to me. When I was a child I would spit when I had bad thoughts. If I thought of a curse word, I had to spit, so that the uncleanness could leave me with the saliva.
I still do this, more so with breathing in and out though.
omg I did the EXACT same thing!!!! I always thought I was crazy!!