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I have an imaginary family. And an imaginary world. It has only a couple of scenes, which I always repeat. It comforts me. Each time I find new details in this scenes. But I don't have any friends in there. It's a world, where I don't need to be different from who I am, but can be me, because people understand.
I have it from early childhood on.

I don't have imaginary friends of the sort but I do tend to live in my head a lot and have conversations with myself. I tend to do this when Im feeling lonely. I also create stories which never happened off the top of my head just like that, I should write a book one day

I am 17 and have imaginary friends(which are my only friends)
i don't think that there's anything bad about it so you shouldn't worry too much about it.

I have had imaginary friends ever since I was 5 years old. My imaginary friends are always based on my special interests. Since my special interests are almost always TV shows and movies, I just take my favorite characters from those and picture them in my imaginary world, where they interact with me and with each other.

My main roster of imaginary friends currently includes the Mane 6 (intentional misspelling) from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, along with several Johnny Depp characters (the Mad Hatter, Willy Wonka, Sweeney Todd* and Edward Scissorhands) and a couple of his leading ladies (Alice and Mrs. Lovett*).

* Please note that although in their movie Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett were murderers and cannibals, those particular aspects of their characters are eliminated in my imaginary versions of them. Mrs. Lovett is now a normal baker and more of a straightforward heroine, while Sweeney Todd is a normal barber, but still retains his "dark" personality and is an anti-hero.

I also have a lot of minor imaginary friends (or would it be "imaginary acquaintances"?), but they are either in the background most of the time (for example Ditzy Doo/Derpy Hooves from MLP:FiM) or come and go at irregular intervals (for example the Doctor from Doctor Who or Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean).

In addition to having imaginary friends and acquaintances, I also have imaginary enemies. Most of them are villains from the movies/TV shows where I got my imaginary friends from, but I have also created my own villain based on my former best friend whose relationship with me ended on a bad note. Truthfully I never really got over my issues with her - not because I'm holding a grudge, but because I miss her terribly and wish things hadn't turned out the way that they did - so I suppose that by turning her into my imaginary enemy is my way of coping with all of the unresolved feelings I have towards her.

when I was younger there used to be a drip of paint (dried) on the bathroom wall and I used to talk to it, I liked it. Anyway every now and then in my life I see (what it is in my mind to be) the same drip of paint and I always acknowledge it by saying "Oh, hello". It's like bumping in to an old friend to me.

I have plenty, and they are of varying use to me.

I have an imaginary friend

More like imaginary pets.

As long as you acknowledge them to be imaginary and don't put them before real friends or family I don't think there's anything wrong with having them.

No I don't have any imaginary friends. I sometimes pretend the man I fancy is walking with me or sleeping in bed with me. But apparently that's normal for a young person because my mum said she was like that when she was young.