when i was little and my parents were driving id pretend there was a man/being/thing running alongside the car who had to follow certain rules like “he can only travel by jumping from streetlight to streetlight” or “he can only walk on fences”

i was so surprised to find out that other people did similar things

i wonder what the underlying psychology behind it is

like its a really specific thing to do but almost everyone did it without telling other kids about it because we all thought it was probably weird or unimportant

i really hope that a psychologist sees this and will post the physiological reason why 99.9% of kids do this

I still do this and I’m almost 18.

Sometimes when driving and we go over shadows or painted lines on the road I pretend the car jumps over each and every one of them.

i used to pretend it was peter pan . .  i had no idea anyone else did this