The scariest version of that mental Tetris Effect I ever got was from Katamari Damacy. I'd be driving along a road, and start judging items like mailboxes and signs as to whether my car was big enough to roll them up if I drove into them.
A few weeks after starting playing Breath of the Wild on the Switch when it first came out, I remember looking out my apartment window down the street at store I needed to go to and thinking "Oh, that won't take much time at all, I can just glide down most of the way there" and only a moment later remembering that the paraglider wasn't something I had in real life.
Our housing complex had a large entrance gate for cars and a smaller gate used by pedestrians (and two wheelers mostly just because they fit and people are lazy to wait for the security guard to open the large gate which used to be closed by default)
I used to drive a two wheeler regularly. Enter and exit through the smaller gate (3-4 feet wide).
One day I took my car to office. While coming back home, I almost ... mentally ... drove through the small gate and crashed. Some part of my brain took over at last moment and steered my car away from turning into that smaller entrance. Phew.
When I was in 6th grade I got really into Rubik's Cubes/twisty puzzles, and was playing with them all the time.
I remember at one point I'd see a traffic light change and my brain would get confused cause somehow it translated what I was seeing into a physically impossible move on a Rubik's Cube.
