Thread: Imaginary Friend

I have never imagined imaginary people talking to me as a child, I was totaly anti-social as a child, and would ignore and not care what they thought of me. However I would spend huge amounts of time each day imagining a video game like experience taking place in my mind, in a way I would kind of have an action movie playing in my mind, if I was in a car driving fast I'd imagine a super hero type figure running really fast beside it. I would make video games in my head, and then try to make it through each level of the game, and fight every boss, if I was playing a fighting game, I'd try out a number of diffrent characters, some of them had RPG elemements and I'd know how many hit points my characters had. It was really pretty entertaining to me, I didn't hallucinate them really, but it was like they really did exist. As I got older my imagination became less organized though, when it was inplanted in my brain that thoughts are just thoughts and nothing more. Now a days I don't make up video games in my head, but fantasies, some of them involve me being a lucid dream god, and doing fun things in lucid dreams.

I've never had an imaginary friend. However, I do catch myself having conversations in my head with real friends and occasionaly I'll create a scenario in my mind and deal with it... one time I went on Oprah to talk about my "new book"... it's weird.

Originally Posted by LucidDreamGod

if I was in a car driving fast I'd imagine a super hero type figure running really fast beside it.

Ha! I did (and occasionally may still do) the exact same thing.

I never had an imaginary friend but I talked alone as a kid. With time I started shifting from talking to thinking, even today I always have this monologue going on inside my head.

wenydlove has an imaginary friend? Righteous.