I did this

Omg! Other people do this???

I thought of Stuart little in his car and on a motorcycle... He'd go everywhere

I'll be honest, I used to imagine Spyro the dragon doing all this during car rides, I always thought I was the only one

I've never done this, I imagined a laser shooting out from the car and I had to turn it off whenever it was about to hit a car.

I am slightly unsettled by this new, informative data.

The Rake.

Omg I did this I can't even begin to explain my rules...

I could only take or release my breath when we drove through a shadow.

Mine either used her hovercraft or jumped on trees/other cars

I did this! But I would pretend it was me riding alongside the car but on roller skates!

Well, sorta of, I thought of a spy version of me being chased my one of the bad guys and sometimes it was vice versa.

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Mine was jumping from treetop to treetop. I totally forgot that I used to do that, but that's really weird other people did too. It's be interesting to find out why.

I did not do this at all and, for a brief moment, I thought it was weird...then I remembered something weirder that I did do. I would curl my toes and imagine they were dragging on the street below the car, then I'd uncurl my toes when we'd pass over lines or other things painted on the roadway, like my toes could not touch the paint.

His name was Ferb. He wore a blue spandex outfit or that was his skin... We became friends when he followed us home one day. I watched drop dead Fred and he decided it was over between us

I did this same thing but the rules where that my imaginary dog could jump on anything but the road or sidewalk.

Mine didn't have specific rules, more like he was always doing badass flips and spins at ridiculous speeds as he leapt from place to place

Apropos of the psychological aspect, I think that kids simply get bored. We have two options at which to look: the landscape through the window or the interior of the car, and we are more interested by the landscape going by because it is dynamic. We transpose imaginary entities to keep us entertained, but to remain in our field of vision, the entities must move as fast as the vehicle. Many imaginary entities are people, so it makes sense that our imaginary friends run along beside us.

I did it with megaman

Mine were always animals who would follow us

Holy crap I did this all the time they jumped from streetsigns and ran across fences and shit ERMAGERD.

I still do this But I would instead pretend i was playing a game where you watched both sides of the streets and whenever it opened up to a new road you had look away possibly at the other road. .. you would also get points for as Long as you looked at the sides

On highways I would pretend a guy on a metal snowboard thing was on the metal divisor in the middle. When we were off the highway, I would imagine a wolf running on the opposite side of the road.

I never did this but I did use my "magic powers" to turn the stoplight green cause red lights pissed my dad off. I also used to race the moon and was sad when it got too far behind but then it'd be okay cause he'd be in front

Yup! Mine used to have to jump over tall things

Mine was always a werewolf. Or a speedy superhero.. I didn't think anyone else did this.

For some reason, mine was a bouncy ball who could only bounce on grass and hedges

Kinda tempted to write a story about something like this.

I did this with a guy on a skateboard on long car trips.

You guys are like "ohh I thought I was the only one ohh" Theres 7 billion people in this world HOW COULD YOU BE THE ONLY ONE

Why does nobody talk about the creepy man on the drawing?

mine was a frog
but still very similar

i still do it

Mine were dogs with wings, and they would ride on other cars or run parallel to the car on the side of the road or rooftop to rooftop. I had like a bunch of different ones that I'd switch between. I never knew anyone else did this. I'm weirdly relieved and yet a little disturbed.

Omg i honestly thought i was the only one who did this

As if other people did this! I used to change things up with mine but the weird yellow and blak striped signs were power ups where he would run faster

Mine was a sharp blade that went out on one side of the car, all the way around the world to the other side of the car, and cut through anything.

I'm 14 years old and up until now I didn't realize others did this.

I am not the only one?!

mine was a guy with stretchy legs that stretched from mailbox to mail box

Omg mine was slightly different, I would clench my teeth on the grass and let go when a road or a driveway came into my view through the window, and then i would clench my teeth again when the grass came back. I thought if i didn't do that then astroids and meteorites would destroy where I didn't. I still do this without thinking (but without the whole saving the earth thing) and I have to stop myself because "thats so weird." I'm a freaking 18 year old girl and still do this, I'm glad i'm not as messed up as I thought!!!

Mine changed from time to time; at one point it was the goblins from Spiderwick, sometimes it was a horse, and sometimes it didn't really have a coherent form at all. Sometimes it had rules and sometimes it didn't.

What if it is real and all kids can see it but once they reach a certain age they lose the ability

Holy crap. I didn't know anyone else did this for real! Mine was Jack Skellington.

Mine was a horse who could jump really high and far... still is

I used to think about a superhero that was playing the floor is lava and went on fences sides of highways etc