Poll: Is this weird or do you do this?

[micky]

all the time! also jumping on cars and stuff too

 

[SilentCom]

I think that's sort of weird. I usually let my mind wander when on a long trip but I don't really think about something like that.

 

[meece]

Nope, never but I guess I might try it some time.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

You'd be surprised what kinds of 'beings' I've 'seen' doing this.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

I use to do it all the time when I was young...

Now however, I have many distractions to keep me occupied from looking out the window...

 

[rodain]

Something I have been wondering is if on a long road-trip do you imagine a being running beside you as you drive? Or is this just a weird habit? If so, What do you imagine?

I do it all the time when on buses and the such to prevent boredom, I tend to imagine a skateboarder because it used to be one of my hobbies.

i do something similar. i imagine a t-rex charging at the bus from the side, knocking it over, and breaking through glass trying to eat those inside. sometimes i fall asleep during this and wake with a scream. fun for everyone!

 

[MadeinHell]

That seems to be one of the weird things I DON'T do.

I am however constantly discussing with myself while driving (in my head I mean), arguing different points and often even getting pissed off at myself.
I know it's weird. You do it too.

 

[Tharwen]

I imagine swinging and jumping between lamp-posts.

I also imagine the car flipping up onto two wheels to avoid touching the shadows on the ground. I'm not really sure why...

 

[GBlair88]

Yeh I used to do that. Except it was more like a ninja jumping between the cars than a skateboarder.

 

[Koeryn]

Actually, I imagine a sport that involves a heavily greased/lubricated solid steel (or other durable metal) snowboard, and a toe rope. If you can't figure anything to do with that, then you are lame and don't get the triple multiplier for using a sharpened edge to decapitate a bus full of nuns while you triple black flip 720 to bs boardslide on a divider.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

A lot. I usually imagine it jumping over the obstacles we pass, or jumping from high point to high point. It's very entertaining.
I was surprised the first time I found out how many people did this.

I often also imagine some kind of laser beam coming from the car and following the ground, moving with the contours of the terrain.

Yeah, absolutely this. I did it for a solid ten years until I began driving. Now I'm rarely a passenger in someone else's vehicle, so it's not really applicable to me.

this. I love to drive and I almost do it everywhere among my friends since im designated drunk driver when we do go somewhere, so usually I dont have the luxury of doing parkour races in my head.

still, on the offchance that i do, i usually do something of the sort, or when im driving i always turn it into races, i make "YEEEUUURRRRRR" sounds when passing people.

 

[AtheistAndProud]

Hey, I used to do that when I was a kid!
I was way into Prince of Persia and Zelda, and used to imagine the two running alongside.
The prince would use his acrobatic skills to keep up, while Link would use hookshots, surf on his shield, and catch wind with his little wand that changed the wind. No, I don't remember what that's called.

Yeah, I used to get crazy-bored in the car...

 

[darkdraconus]

Wait; you mean there isn't actually some one running alongside the vehicle? There goes my only friend. T_T

 

[Saelune]

I was surprised the first time I found out how many people did this.

All the time, man. Useally I imigine it being Kirby or a girl on a surfboard for some reason.

I was actually ninja'd about Kirby....damn.

 

[legion431]

A lot. I usually imagine it jumping over the obstacles we pass, or jumping from high point to high point. It's very entertaining.
I was surprised the first time I found out how many people did this.

I often also imagine some kind of laser beam coming from the car and following the ground, moving with the contours of the terrain like some 3D scanner or something.

Yes, the jumping and the grid. To me it's like something obsessive.

 

[The Human Torch]

I can safely say that I never ever done this. You people need to get some help.

 

[badgersprite]

Oh, yeah, I used to do this, especially as a younger kid. I think maybe that was because I used to play more sidescrolling platformers and watch more shows with superheroes/superpowered people back then? Sometimes I imagine or notice other stuff, but I think it comes from the same place.

As I got older, I usually tended to pass time more by thinking more about things I was going to do or by listening to music, and I think I still do that, but sometimes I think The Tetris Effect gets to me and I start daydreaming about the sort of thing you said OP. I also do it way more when I'm tired, because it means I'm not thinking about something else, and I'm way more likely to associate the purple spraypaint I see on the train tunnel with the game of GTA: San Andreas I played the night before and mentally pretend I did the "Grove Street" tag over it, or think about the game of Assassin's Creed I'd been playing and imagine Altair or Ezio free running around on the rooftops by the train tracks.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I don't do it, but I wouldn't consider it weird.
Maybe I'll try it next time...

 

[ThreeWords]

Something I have been wondering is if on a long road-trip do you imagine a being running beside you as you drive? Or is this just a weird habit? If so, What do you imagine?

I do it all the time when on buses and the such to prevent boredom, I tend to imagine a skateboarder because it used to be one of my hobbies.

Yes, I do this. But then, since I started writing stories the whole time, I have a habit of projecting my archetypal central character into anything I do. Whatever I do, I narrate in my head as if he were doing, with descriptions of the world around him and the thoughts in his head.

I have a worrying feeling that my writing is starting to eat my mind.

Getting inside your character's head? Or is your character getting inside yours?

I do the same thing, but my "arch-typical character" will usually be just the most recent, I tend to drift between characters as the months go by.

Current one is an orc samurai that I'm writing about, who takes a coming-of-age test that includes picking up his destiny where his ancestor left off - a trial by fire kinda thing. It makes me feel really ashamed of being so lazy, when I can imagine what he'd be thinking and doing. Every moment of his life is filled with ritual, formality, or training, every second designed to teach him what he will need to pass the trials.

And I can't even get out of bed and feed myself, because I'm too lazy. Oh well, back to daydreaming, haha.

That must be inspiring...

I find that while my characters change, there's almost always certain people somewhere in the story who has certain traits, like an echo in my imagination. And it's that echo-character that lives many life alongside me and builds himself out of my mind.

 

[ThreeWords]

I can safely say that I never ever done this. You people need to get some help.

You must lead such a boring life...