Do you have "imaginary" friends?

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I don't really have imaginary friends as such. But often, as I'm walking along the street, I'm always having a conversation in my head with someone, but it's no-one in particular. I wonder if it's because I get slightly anxious when walking in the street by myself, so I pretend I've got someone walking along with me and helping me to relax as I'm walking along. I don't say anything out loud (no way!) but I just use my head to talk, and pretend I'm saying it out loud. You know what I mean?

I never do this when I'm with someone - only when I'm on my own. It's like I'm having conversations with my conscience in my head.

I do this as well....I imagine someone I admire/look up to giving me advice...........at times even unsolicited advice about what to do with my life.

I had imaginary cat friends when I was a kid, it was a world we had built with my twin brother (almost the only person I never had any problem with), but we liked to tell ourselves a story before going to bed in which we lived in a forest with our cats and teddy bears and some teachers we liked.
I also had an imaginary friend from the hidden face of the moon but it was more a way to make the fact that I had invented my own language more normal. There were not a lot of words anyway...

I also daydream a lot, I have a story in which I am an alien who lives in a city underwater with other aliens and some of us are from the Earth because there was aliens among us long ago and the genes has passed through the generations. It's silly and I know it is just a story but when I was a teenager I could feel better before going to sleep by pretending I was normal somewhere. I never end the story and tend to repeat the same story every night, it varies every 6months or so.

I always thought this was the ultimate proof that I was only borderline AS. It's a well known fact that I am "in my world" (because of my interest in linguistic AND because I daydream) and have a lot of imagination.

No but I do have imaginary conversations with real people.

When I was younger, I made up stories and created characters (based on celebrities that I liked) and transformed to a new personality, mostly from outer space. I have realized later on that they were actually reflecting the way I am as a person myself. It took me many years to actually include myself into the stories. I'm still a daydreamer and I switch between stories including myself as I am, cute fairies and my characters from the past. We all have in common to be from a different planet with spaceships and other geeky stuff.

i imagine all of the time. for as long as i can remember, i have pretended that other people are in the room with me when i am alone, and spoken out loud to them. sometimes it is a friend that i know in real life, and sometimes it is just a generic person not based on anyone in particular. i speak confidently, laugh, joke around, and act like normally can't in real life. sometimes i make up entire histories and relationships in my head and get my mind so wound up that i have trouble falling asleep. i am 22 now, and i have been trying to rid myself of this habit. for example, i was sitting at my computer watching a tv show this afternoon, and when something funny happened, i actually turned my head to the side and was about to make a remark to the empty room. i stopped myself and got angry. but it's so hard to change!! i am a perfectly logical person, and in no way do i actually believe that there are imaginary/invisible people around me that listen to what i say. but somehow i can't help it. is this a result of loneliness/isolation? or do people who have human contact regularly also do this?

I have imaginary pets. Bubbles and Diamond the meerkats are aren't very friendly and run away when someone other than myself approaches. Bubbles MIGHT let you pet her but Diamond will bite you if she shes you reach up and try and touch her. I have other imagianry meerkats and imaginary pets of other species.

oh hell yeah. Well I had lots growing up that never really left.

My imaginary friends have changed since the last time I posted in this thread. Now they include all of the characters from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie, as well as other characters from Tim Burton movies such as Willy Wonka, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett.

My former childhood friend, with whom I'm sadly no longer on speaking terms, has also become an imaginary friend (and lover) over the years. If I can't have her in real life, what's the harm in pretending? She's also a constant presence in my dreams at night.

Pete Quaife of The Kinks has become my imaginary friend, so that he will always be with me. It's become my coping mechanism. He also looks the way he did in 1964. When Mick passes away and I do the same, I will become my own best friend, because Mick is me with a penis. You know how that works.

I do that too, mostly with characters from books or tv shows. They change from time to time, but I always did that in my mind. I make stories about how their lifes would have been when this or that happend and so on. At the moment I do this with the Asgard-Aliens from Stargate and some of the characters from Lord of the Rings.
Sometimes one of those characters become a lover too, but mosty only for a short time.

I thought I'm the only one who do this, so glad I found this page and people who seem so much like me.

My imaginary friends always end up not liking me and leave.

I didn't know that this was not "normal" but I always talked to "someone" in my head, especially when I can't solve a problem, I ask "it" what to do. I think it is what people call imaginary friend.
Also, when I was younger, I had several "real imaginary friends" (like a real person in the room, not like now: only in my brain, without any forms) but they always ended up arguing with me. So I said to them to "go away and leave me alone" and so I had to recreate an another imaginary friend (but they never had real names).

I have done this my entire life. I do not even consciously try to do it. I will just be pacing, and my mind will drift away to fantasy land, and I'll have full-blown conversations or interactions in my imagination with people I know in real life, or celebrities I admire. When I was younger, it could be kids from school that were too cool to talk to me, boys I liked, or even dead celebrities.. Emily Dickinson was my favorite imaginary friend for a long time. Now that I'm older, it's usually people I know that I don't feel fully understand me. Enemies and ex-boyfriends and whatnot.

Sometimes I will even be thinking about something clever I'll say to this person during one of these little daydreams, and I will laugh out loud. Yes, this has provided me with many embarrassing moments growing up, being caught just pacing and giggling about nothing.

I've found that it helps me as a writer, of fiction and stand-up comedy, to jot stuff down that I come up with during these fantasies.

You just described what goes on in my head on a day-to-day basis!

I have never had imagninary friends. I certainly can't remember any. But I do have imaginary social events. They can involve anyone I have ever known.