Can anyone with knowhow of respiration mechanics (dynamics?)
please help - haven't yet found anything relevant from
Google search.
Here's the situation. My own "resting " involuntary
pattern is normally one in which the breathing is a
regular series of inhalation/exhalation cycles, but
interrupted at regular intervals by a single, long
inhalation/exhalation, which is different from the others
which precede and follow it. This "long" breath is
pleasurable and characterised by a feeling of fullness and
a feeling that a valve is opening and admitting air to
additional areas of lung not otherwise accessed.
The puzzle is why texts I've seen relating to respiration
studies and problems, don't refer to this important episode
in the breathing cycle. My wife and friends don't recognise
its existence, although I recall noticing it in my brothers
while they slept as kids.
Can anybody here confirm the existence of this "long
breath"; then at least I'll know I'm not from some
other planet.
steve