Do you find it helpful in life to imagine hypothetical scenarios?

Everyday I think to myself about one hypothetical scenario. I think about simple things that happen to people all the time such as my phone dying and being far from my destination. Then I can’t call anyone for a ride all the way to the more complicated and gruesome such as being kidnapped and forced to choose between having a torturous death or someone I love being killed. I play them out hundreds of times through out the day with many alterations. I feel like it helps me because if I’m ever in one of my planned scenarios I will be ready to face it and do what I have to do. Does anyone else do this?