This may seem really weird but

Your mental ability most be huge maintaining that throughout the night while you sleep.
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After readin ya post i had to think about breathing be4 i cud!

All is well then. I shall make sure you have to think about every little detail before you go to bed now. Heh heh heh....

But I have to force myself to breathe . Haven't you read the thread?

it produces blood cells.

But I have to force myself to breathe . Haven't you read the thread?

Aww maybe I'm confused :/ what did red bonemarrow do again then?

it's not the spine that control's breathing, it's the respiratory centre in the medulla oblongata of the brainstem. this centre sends impulses via the ANS to the diaphragm etc.

the spine is part of the PNS, and associated mainly with reflex reponses such as drawing your hand away from a heat source.

So what in the spine handles reflexes?

Zapsta is the exception of the rules that applies to all the other humans.



produce blood cells



so i wasn’t wrong

No I haven't (and still haven't even before writing this post ) You can override your autonomic nervous system via higher brain centres. What do you mean by 'forcing yourself to breathe'??

this may come as a shock to you, but it may have something to do with.............................................................................................................nerves?

You said muscles controlled it, dunno if the brain is a muscle but if it isn't you were wrong? Not that I care that much I'm not really into biology

i never mentioned the brain. i meant the diaphragm and the muscles(for example) in the intenstens that is a part of the digestion system.

Sometimes I become really aware of my breathing. Rather than breathing in and out, I just breath out as the air kind of drains from my lungs, then I have to think about taking another breath.

Well they should be controlled by nerves (or as I call it red bonemarrow ) in the spine still :/

does it happen when you get stressed/anxious? sounds like some sort of psychological thing.. i wouldn't worry too much about it if it doesn't happen very often though, maybe asking someone who isn't merely a second year medical student would be a good first step

the diaphragm isn't controlled by nerves?! you are confusing me i don't know what you mean and now i'm not even sure that i remember anything correctly.

Yeah but for some reason I thought there was a special collaboration or collection of nerves in the spine called red bonemarrow, since it wasn't bonemarrow it should be called something else I thought
This is what happens when you study for exams instead of actually learning something, and yeah when you don't really have an interest in the subject.

you get your dorsal and ventral spinal roots but I'm pretty sure there isn't any bone marrow involved ; )

Not really. It's normally when people are discussing breathing (so yes, I'm getting it right now ). And by the sound of things, IHP and Mikey suffer similarly

Ah well now it's happening to me. As soon as you become aware of your breathing cycle it sort of falls into a "remember to breathe in and out" mentality until you find something better to think about