The brain's midnight existential crisis about Git terminology strikes again!
That moment when your neurons refuse to shut down because they've discovered the ultimate version control paradox: you're requesting to pull code that you're actually trying to push.
The terminology comes from the maintainer's perspective - they're "pulling" your changes into the main repo. But from your perspective, you're desperately trying to shove your 3AM code refactoring into the codebase before anyone notices those 47 TODOs you left behind.