What's Going on in His Head When He Was Writing This?

When i was little, my grandmother used to tell us that crossing the path of a jehnny mas while a person was praying on it was a sin. And so and so, as a child,  i very faithfully believe, like, i honestly thought that n i was very careful about not crossing the paths of prayer rugs when someone was praying because i would turn into a monkey. So years and years and years later, you know, an when i've started conceptializing this story for the first time, and like, ok, like, let's write this story. What would happen if somebody actually turned into a monkey? Then it became sort of this process of then