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Hello.
If confronted with circumstances when/where uncertainty causes anxiety, then this produces a motivation for a need to know.
Understanding is --understandably--sought. Available explanations are considered, evaluated for relevance regarding the circumstances being encountered, etc.
If no such explanation is found the anxiety of uncertainty persists. This is either accepted as being an inevitable consequence of not knowing, or becomes more like an unacceptable void which needs to be filled.
If so it is understandable that some alternative form of explanation is used in an attempt to fill the void.
This may take the form of explanation based on imagination, fitting the encountered circumstances into a narrative of the imagination in a manner which satisfies the need without necessarily reflecting reality.
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