When you arrange your shoes, do you line them up symmetrically? When you are passing a lamp post, do you ever swing around it, or want to swing around it? Or perhaps you are a person who has to hang the washing out in your own particular way? These are all subconscious urges, things that our practical logical brain tells us is entirely inappropriate for someone our age but yet we still go ahead and do it anyway because, well, we just have to!
“I Just Can’t Help Myself”: Understanding the Links between Urges and Play. Author: Gillian Fitzgerald
