It’s called the Walter Mitty syndrome.
The severity of the syndrome, can be recognised by the “there were , three engines out in the 747 the first officer was only new to the company and we had no fuel, had to do an NDB raw data, the only thing on the ASI was the makers name, the cloud was below the landing minima and due to the unforecast typhoon, we had to circle around through driving rain, severe turbulence and land on the unlit secondary runway, but we arrived at the gate five minutes early!”