My childhood had some guy surfing on the power lines.
omg mine was inspired by Jet Set radio characters, grinding on the power lines, rooftops & whatnot ! quite close
I had Sonic, from the Sonic Riders series. Seeing as Sonic could slide through some cable thing, made sense. Plus, like, Danny Phantom, maybe, and maybe others.
hell yes! I'm my case, I rode a dirt bike just next to the highway jumping overpasses, dodging trees and whatever else I needed to do to keep pace with the car without crashing
Same!
same here. For my dad it was skiing
Basically the same, but BMX for me lol
I had a blade extending from my hand and cut down everything we passed like telephone poles and trees and mailboxes but I couldn't let it touch metal so I had to angle my hand up if we passed anything like that.
Similar, I had lasers coming out of the side mirrors but would have to take my hand off the “button” so it wouldn’t cut down the signs, telephone poles, mailboxes, people, etc.
I always imagined a ninja doing flips and shit.
Mine was also a ninja that used signs as weapons. He'd pull them out of the ground and use them like swords.
Signposts with reflectors on them had special powers depending on the reflector color.
I'm glad this post exists, I thought it was just me.
I only see my imaginary friend when I take too much Benadryl
Nightmare fuel, thanks
Actually less scary tbh 😄
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I would imagine a BMX bike in tow. Using bridge embankments to clear roads... 😎
Me too :)
I always wanted to go here:
Just follow them on and on until I reached some presumably paradisaical location.
Seattle has a park/trail like this
No, all of ya'll are crazy. The dot of dirt on the window was the aiming device for a laser, and you had to use it to cut all the electrical wires without cutting trees or the poles, because those are wood and it would start a fire.
I don't recall imagining a particular character, just a humanoid figure running alongside and jumping over/dodging stuff.
Apparently this is one of those things that nobody ever talks about, but a lot of people did.
Nah, it was my imaginary friend doing bmx tricks, we didn't have parkour back then.
Also, how could a person run fast enough to keep up with a motor vehicle? Sheesh, does your imagination completely ignore science? You gotta have at least a bicycle to keep up.
Also, this is the first time I've ever seen or heard someone else talk about this kind of daydream. So, it's pretty fucking cool, even though the details aren't the same.
Mine was a cool skateboard dude who did the most amazing grinds and flips
What do you mean "did"!
It's considerably more difficult to do this when you have to focus on driving.
Someone can't handle a challenge. /s
I usually imagined either sonic the hedgehog or one of the velociraptors from jurassic park
Tony Hawk’s
No I was imagining a rod of destruction sticking out the side of the car, and whenever it hit a building we were driving past it would annihilate the building like the juggernaut ran through it.
... isn't that what normal kids thought about?
I had imagined a laser beam slicing everything too
Same. It's weird that we are different yet we are alike.
Damn, I thought I was the only one...
I hadn't remembered this in years, but I always imagined myself out there like the Flash and how my older brothers were in the car watching me burn it up and being super impressed. I literally might not have remembered that during my entire adult life. Thanks for reminding me. Although I was more like seven at the time.
Parkour wasn't a thing when I was 10, for me it was Strider running along with the car and slashing stuff.
It was Mario, represented by a dirty spot or water droplet on the window, who would be made to jump over things by moving my head up and down
I had a cheetah running along, occasionally a horse. But not in the city, only on the motorway
Mine was an imaginary me on a dirt bike doing sick jumps
You guys got a window seat?
I had a dragon flying along side. Sometimes it's a bike dodging opposing traffic and jumping ramps
It was the line painted on the side of the road that was zooming this way and that to keep up with the car. Sometimes it would snake away to a rest stop and then merge with us again after the exit.
I took my Dramamine so I could read without vomiting.
Mine was an invisible flying squirrel jumping and gliding between tree tops at 110 km/h...
Reminded me of this short film (that’s clearly sponsored by the North Face) from a a few years ago. https://youtu.be/IXw17Cjbeeo
Regrettably no. I would imagine myself unhinge my jaw and eat all the trees and brushes we would pass. For whatever reason, kindergarten-me strongly believed that everything without a heartbeat looked very delicious and edible. Trees, clouds, snow, sand, windmills, brick buildings, flags, other cars, busses and the sun itself.
Grew out of that phase when I began school, but yeah. In a way I kinda miss being so young and new to living that you're still figuring out what is and isn't possible. The world seemed a lot more fun when you didn't yet know the rules, lol.
As for me, I sang songs in my head to the rhythm of the defilement of the discotine lines on the freeway.
I think it's really interesting that everyone seems to have had either a humanoid running along side the car or something aiming from their eyes that can cut/smash only certain types of things. I wonder what makes it happen.
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