My childhood had some guy surfing on the power lines.

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

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.

I always imagined a ninja doing flips and shit.

I only see my imaginary friend when I take too much Benadryl

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.

Mine was a cool skateboard dude who did the most amazing grinds and flips

I would imagine a BMX bike in tow. Using bridge embankments to clear roads... 😎

Sonic the Hedgehog.

I got that Sonic Autism

I always wanted to go here:

Just follow them on and on until I reached some presumably paradisaical location.

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.

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.

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.

What do you mean "did"!

I usually imagined either sonic the hedgehog or one of the velociraptors from jurassic park

Tony Hawk’s

Parkour wasn't a thing when I was 10, for me it was Strider running along with the car and slashing stuff.

Damn, I thought I was the only one...

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

Mine was an imaginary me on a dirt bike doing sick jumps

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?

You guys got a window seat?

I had a dragon flying along side. Sometimes it's a bike dodging opposing traffic and jumping ramps

I had a cheetah running along, occasionally a horse. But not in the city, only on the motorway

I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out wtf anime that is on the top because the style looks like exactly what I'm into, and it turns out I've already seen it lmao

Bubblegum Crisis, it's rad as fuck

I took my Dramamine so I could read without vomiting.

It's more fun in a high speed train

Reminded me of this short film (that’s clearly sponsored by the North Face) from a a few years ago. https://youtu.be/IXw17Cjbeeo

I'm an adult and I still do this lol.

Mine was an invisible flying squirrel jumping and gliding between tree tops at 110 km/h...

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.

Grew up in a cold part of the world, was a skier doing grinds and flips, but yeah, same idea!