Imaginary friends?

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My imaginary friend was the unused fireplace in my bedroom. I used to 'feed' it by stealing the used teabags from the kitchen, tearing them open and sprinkling the tealeaves around the hearth

That's adorable! My favorite.

Roddy, Rita and Sid. :O)

Mine wasn't entirely human either, at least I never imagined her with legs, she seemed to hover.

I wonder why so many had/have non human imaginary friends and how that compares to NT children?
Whether theres are more likely to be human or not.

No...but I did believe that my stuffed animals were sentient beings and I would talk to them...they never answered. I thought rocks, trees, bugs,etc were also able to understand me and would talk to them sometimes...I played alone a lot.

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I have lots of imaginary friends: most of them come and go depending on my mood, but the ones who always stay with me are Abel Nightroad from Trinity Blood, Alucard from Hellsing, and Krory from D. Gray-Man. My logical mind keeps reminding me that it's all fantasy, but my heart likes to believe that they truly are real, though in a different dimension. I love all my friends very much; they mean the world to me.

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I read a book on imaginary companions, and I don't remember them saying anything wrt human/non-human. I do remember them saying that imaginary companions are fairly common in the West, but almost unheard of in India, and when a child does have an imaginary companion in India, it's considered to be a ghost or a past-life thing or something (i.e. not imaginary). So I guess it depends more on the culture/subculture you grow up in than anything else.

I have imaginary conversations with dead/fictional people all the time. Sometimes I even learn something useful. Mostly I just wish I had more real people to talk to.

I had an imaginary friend when I was younger. His name was Todd and I always pictured him wearing green clothes. I modeled him after that alien Kazoo on The Flintstones.
He was someone to whom I could tell my innermost thoughts.

In middle school, I pretended to have an imaginary friend named Sammy. Thinking back on it, the appearance of Sammy cooincided heavily with my best friend moving away, so I'm tempted to say that I wasn't pretending as much as I thought I was.

I loled ;D



I always wished (literally) my stuffed animals were alive, even though I knew they weren't...I'd imagine that they'd only come to life while I slept, so I'd pick one to set up next to me while I slept, and appointed him to kill the nightmares for me.

Boy, would they get a talking to when they slacked off

I had imaginary friends. I had one when I was 3 but then that went away. I can remember creating another one when I was 12. It was Anita from 101 Dalmatians. Then I had an imaginary cat from The Aristocats. Then I had a weird imaginary friend from one of my stories. Then I got rid of her when I was 15 and I haven't had one since. I remember I wanted Dottie and Kit from A League of Their Own as my imaginary friends but they lived in the 40's and I wasn't cool with their imaginary time machine. I certinally didn't want them as old. I should have had Sam and Joon and maybe Benny too and his friends but I thought I was too old for imaginary friends.

You're never too old for imaginary friends.

That pretty much describes me. I had a whole bunch of imaginary friends as a kid...I didn't so much have one or two imaginary friends, so much as I had a recurring cast.

Over the past 5 years or so, I've gone from plain imaginary friends to something a little more "grown-up": I love to make up stories, so a lot of times I'll imagine that I'm in a character in one of my stories and I'll have a conversation in my head with another character. But I have a few recurring main characters in my stories, so it's almost like having an imaginary friend. (As a result, I imagine things about my characters that never make it into the stories).

Oh yay, so many of you!! Thanks for sharing everyone!!

I can't quite "invent" an imaginary friend, because my logical Aspergers mind tells me that person does not exist and I would have trouble making up qualities for them in my head. They have to be based on something real, or in my case she is more of a ghost than an imaginary friend and therefore real, but on a different spiritual plain to me.

Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are imaginary.

I could never invent imaginary friends; the characters I did invent felt... how do I explain this... "empty" to me. Instead it was just easier to "meet" my imaginary friends through anime and manga.

I had dragons when I was at primary school - they were all atleast 5m high, so they couldn't come inside with me, which was annoying, but they waited out in the playground for me. Then, when I was 12, I made good friends with a small stuffed toy which is still a good mate in hard times. He's called turtle, and is very understanding, though he doesn't say much.