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Are these examples you made up or were they pulled from media?
It almost sounds like a shortening of "The one where..." as seen in the title of every Friend's episode.
Is it possible that you are misusing the term in your examples? Because I've never heard of where being interchangeable with since.
I don't think I have either. From media, although I can't share the media.
It's definitely not "the one where...", but it isn't impossible I'm misusing the term, although I find that unlikely, I can't see another word that fits, and the sentences are fairly straightforward.
Where is always used in the beginning to indicate the reasoning for the following action or logical stop.
"Where I was on the bed, I leaned around the corner to look into the hallway".
"'Where most of the animals are scared, I can't see the point of scaring them further.'"
"Where they can pick locks, they might already know what's in the safe!"
I could hear "Where's" being used for "Whereas" deeper in the mountains, come to think of it.
"Where's I's on the bed, I leaned 'round the corner"
"Where's most of the animals is scared"
"Where's they's can pick locks"
Shortening of 'whereas' maybe?