I, too, am blessed with an overactive imagination! It comes in very handy.
I played the same kind of mind games when I was little, still do. What if...? How would I react and what would I do? I still look for exits first thing when I enter somewhere! The point is, imagining things like this and playing games teaches us how to deal in the real world.
We’d be locked up for it now, but when my siblings and I were little, we used to practice tying each other up and seeing how long it took us to get loose! Forewarned is forearmed! LOL
I’ll never forget when my dad taught me how to make a fist and box because the class bully started with me one day in third grade. He always said “never throw the first punch, but you darned well better throw the last one.” LOL!
I only punched one girl in school. It was after swim practice, she was a junior and I was a freshman. There was one punch and two hits. Me hitting her and her hitting the floor. :)
I check for exits too! Too funny. You should see me on a plane counting rows forward and backwards to the exits. We took the whole family to the movies the other night, and I made sure I knew where we would go. We probably sound a little nuts to others, but I would rather be known as the nutty mom than remembered as the nice one.