An almost catastrophic ride home, can it be stopped halfway?

I thought I had asked this before but I don’t see it in my list, probably I wrote about it in an answer.

Every now and then when I ride my bicycle back home or to my job, I have a trip which consists of near crashes with other traffic or curb stones and such.
It starts with one near miss and then following are more of those misses.
It made me think: do the next near misses are a result of my decreased feeling of security because of the first one, or is it really a matter of fate?
And, what if I stop midway for a minute, would the trip continue without new near misses, or….?
Do you recognize this? Have it also happening to you some times?