The irony in the name of course is that it couldn't possibly happen to an actual centipede, as they don't have anything like the high level of conscious thought

The irony in the name of course is that it couldn't possibly happen to an actual centipede, as they don't have anything like the high level of conscious thought that humans do. But I'm curious whether this phenomenon could occur in any other species, and how we'd ever know. Sadly so far there's no evidence to back up Douglas Adams' theory that we're all able to fly if we could stop ourselves thinking about how we're clearly not biologically capable of it and would injure or kill ourselves hitting the ground if we tried.