Weird game I played in the backseat as a kid

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If I saw a spot on the window, I'd movie my head so my vision made the spot move, and I'd avoid scrolling objects outside.

I used to dodge mailboxes with my hand cause it kinda looks like the millenium falcon with the fingers all put together..

*Like, from inside the car. Not actually risking hitting one.

The first thing I thought about when reading this thread was bird vision. Finches, parrots and other birds with side vision judge distances to objects by bobbing their heads up and down. From the relative movement, or non movement, of the object they can tell if it's close or far away.

I Used to watch the gravel or grass whizzing by on the side of the road until it made me nauseated. Then look away to recover and then go back to it again. Eventually I overcame the nausea completely.
I Also used to telegraph poles and report to my parents periodically what number I was up to. I would get very upset if dad drove too fast and I couldn't keep count. On long trips I would count poles into the tens of thousands.

I played that game too, Sharkgirl! Another variation was watching the windshield wiper to see if it would "hit" the signs and mile markers along the side of the road as they passed, or if it would avoid them by "jumping over them."

Car rides were never boring I looked forward to long trips so I could play these sorts of games. For me it was like a stim.

All I remember doing was watching for faries in the woods (which I still do ) , counting mile markers or trying to count white lane lines. I can't read in the car or I'll get carsick.

I used to use my eyes to ski around the poles as though they were slalom gates. It bothered me if the road and the poles parted ways because the game would end.