I was driving home from work yesterday when a young man and a young woman with a baby strapped to her front ran across a fairly major road right at the side street that I was turning down. There's no light, no crosswalk, just lots of 40 mph traffic anxious to get home for the night....They crossed behind a turning car, so that traffic coming from the other side could not have seen them....Literally my heart stopped for just a second as they got to the middle with barely enough time to make it across, they made it no blood, no death....
But as I made my turn for home I shuddered and fully played out the resulting scene of them not making it, the mother stumbling, the car speeding up from 40-50, them leaving just a second later, and I couldn't shake the image for a while....then I got to realizing that I do this little mind game fairly often...like when I got in my fender bender this past Friday playing out if the Explorer wasn't there....would I have slammed the guard rail? flew off the embankment to the highway below? See here for that thread:
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Or when the window washers are outside my office window...
I find my body even does a little wince in those situations...I must say that this isn't a daily event but definitely weekly, even every couple of days...anyone else have this sort of reaction? it can be so detailed at times that I think I have tapped into some other stream of consiousness, makes me think of some of those science fiction novels about alternate realities and parallel universes...
I'm sure it is pretty much a mental reaction to a moment of high stress or disturbance but man it is just one of those human mind things that creeps me out sometimes....
Thoughts?
Adam