You want to hide behind the bar because you are afraid of humans, but in that position you cannot reach above the human’s line of sight, so you become you think you are higher by turning upside down and becoming “higher from your point of view”.
Often in humans, a phenomenon is observed in which a person who is inferior in axes of values X that others have, brings up the inverted reverse values axis X’ and claims that “she is not inferior”.
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