Childhood imaginary friends

[Ratrace]

No. Probably because my definition of friend was someone who's racist parents hates you, even though they're in your country and have the money to go back to theirs if they want.

[Yeshua-Knight]

this is probably going to come off sounding odd, but when i was like 4 or 5 and all my real friends were gone off or busy elsewhere or something, um, well, i would go play with Jesus....don't know if you necessarily want to call that imaginary, but he's my invisible friend, so i guess in that sense he qualifies

[Ratrace]

I wouldn't call that odd.

[Yeshua-Knight]

well, i mean, how many kids do you know that go out to play with Jesus? it's not exactly something you hear about much these days

[Ratrace]

I know a few people who did that. Just because it's not common doesn't mean you should be looking into buying some padded wallpaper or anything.

[Yeshua-Knight]

naw, i know i'm not nuts, Jesus really is here with me

[Ratrace]

He might actually have been with you back then. You never know.(unless you ask?)

[Little T-chan]

when i was around 7 or 8 years old..i used to live in an apartment. and there were long swaying evergreen-like trees planted all around. and since i was obsessed with the disney movie pocahontas, i used to run up to a certain one of those trees and talk to it, calling it "grandmother willow" just like pocahontas called that one tree in the movie...^^;;

[Denimcat]

I didn't so much have imaginary friends - as in an invisible person to talk to and interact with - as about a dozen characters running around inside my head for entertainment.

Really, it's not different from today.

[Freezair]

Most of the imaginary friends I had when I was young were also characters from cartoon shows. The Animaniacs and Jay Sherman from The Critic served as my best imaginary friends back then. When I head out for camping trips or was on the road with my family, I would always have conversations with them (in my head) about certain things that have happened during the day, or 'hang out' together (again, inside my head) just to make light of certain situations.

When I first started 7th grade, our school had a bit of a problem. Nearly every other day, the fire alarm would go off. (One of the heavily autistic children loved to pull the alarms in his classroom). Now, I was scared to death of the sound of those alarms. Don't ask me why, but I was. So for a while there, all the Digimon from the first season of Digimon--including my made-up Digimon, Natamon--kept me company and reassured me.

[Saj]

captain planet... no lie

[yukishiro128]

I had 1,000 imaginary friends all named Emily (my name). I remember pushing them on the swings once or twice. But I never really bonded with them, though...I had more adventures with my Polly Pockets (all 71 of them), eraser collection (yes, even the pencil toppers had distinct personalities!), keychain collection, etc...Basically everything in the general vicinity had a background story and we all went on adventures.^^

I guess my drawings have taken their place...I miss them. (sob)

[Monkey J. Luffy]

I don't recall ever having an imaginary friend...
but if I did I would probably do something like kaligraphic would.

[creed4]

I don't remember an imaginary friend, what i did was invent characters, and superheroes.

[Alexander]

I had 1,000 imaginary friends all named Emily (my name). I remember pushing them on the swings once or twice. But I never really bonded with them, though...I had more adventures with my Polly Pockets (all 71 of them), eraser collection (yes, even the pencil toppers had distinct personalities!), keychain collection, etc...Basically everything in the general vicinity had a background story and we all went on adventures.^^

I guess my drawings have taken their place...I miss them. (sob)

One of those Emily's must have met me then.

She was...was...

Can I even use that sentence together? Was? Shouldn't it be "is" and not "was"?

*shakes self* Anyways, she was small girl I had created when I was 16 for a variety of reasons. Mainly because I was lonely and felt a very deep need to have a young girl living in my room. This isn't anything bizzare to assure you. I've always wanted to have children, and she full-filled my dream.

Then one day I lost track of her in midst of a very hard personal struggle I've been having, and I haven't been able to find her since.

[shade of dae]

I had an imaginary friend until around three years ago when I went through some major changes in my life. She was like a nice older sister: quiet, kind, always listening to my complaints patiently, playing alot with me and the like. After I had gotten through the changes, I had kind of forgotten her.

[Kuro-Mizu]

I went through... imaginary friend stages... so first....

when i was little i guess i really liked winnie the pooh cause my imagenary friend was roo and i would baby sit him for kanga when she had to do things.

Yeah I LOVED winnie the pooh too. In fact I still do. but from like age 1-3 the pooh characters were my imaginary friends. Whenever we went on long trips or I ahd to be alone for extended periods of times I would imagine I was playing with the pooh characters. All of them. hehe... they had interesting personalities in my imagination O_o tigger was my best imaginary friend of course.

then as I got to be 4 or 5 I started to get really curios about the drain in our basement (it was about a 3 feet wide without a cover and it looked like it never ended... actually thats just how it looked when I was 4... I dunno how big it really was) and I kept bugging my sister to tell me what was down their since i thought she knew everything. She always said no.

Finally one day she took me down their and told me what lived in the drain. It was a little ghost. he didn't have a name but he was friendly and he lived in the drain because he was trapped.

after she told me the story he became my imaginary friend. I would go down their and talk to him whenever I needed to work something out.

When we moved I told my sister I was sad we were leaving the ghost. She said it was ok. She had captured him in a box and now he lived in her closet. As she went to first grade I got really lonely and my mom said I was always sitting in my sisters closet and it creeped her out LOL I was actually talking to the ghost because I was lonely. I did this until my sister told me she made the ghost up. I was shocked... but I never talked to the ghost again.

the last phase was this-

I never really had one. Once, I thought that I was very deficient in this area, when I was in first grade or something, and just randomly made up this girl named Judy. She lived only for an hour.

In like third grade it became trendy at my elementary school to play with your imaginary friend during recess. I have no idea why... So I made up a little guy who lived behind my ear... I forgot about him as soon as the trend was over LOL

[Freezair]

I never had an actual imaginary friend but, I had several dreams that I hung out with Michael Jordan, were we made things like bread and playdough (lol).

Weirdly enough, when I was about... fifteen? Sixteen? I forget--An imaginary boy called Rupert started showing up in my dreams. He was a winged dream person, just like me. (Whenever I lucid dream, I always dream myself wings and fly around. Very, very cool.) He could also shapeshift. He claimed he loved me, but at first I just found him annoying. Then my dream-self got a crush on him, and he was my dream-self's imaginary boyfriend. O_o; Then one day, he vanished. I got worried about him and went to visit his village. I found out that he'd had some horrible times since he'd last seen me, and had gone out to get drunk on cloud wine. (Only dream-people can get drunk on cloud wine. Real people who drink it just feel light and warm and flufy, like a kitten.) He then explained to me what had happened. He had never been a true winged being, he told me. He had pretended to love me so that he might get wings. (I never did figure out how this was supposed to work...) He had actually come to like me as a person, though, and he felt terribly sorry. I helped pick him up, and throgh dream-magic, he instantly became sober. Then we went out to fight nightmares and give little children sweet dreams.

Haven't seen the kid in a while, but last time I did, I got to meet his "real" girlfriend, a true dream-person. I have weeeeird dreams... XD