Thread: Imaginary friends

Speaking as a psychoanalyst, I think you were evidently sexually frustrated as a child. Possibly in relation to your sister. I don't judge.

...anyways, I think as a child you feel the need to be different and special and imaginary friends can do that for you. Eventually I think we realise just how different we are, and cherish it without the need for other things to express it. Or we become bitterly disillusioned with ourselves and the world and just forget imaginary friends. Eitherway.

My sister and I are five years apart (I told her about the friends after I stopped believing in them). So perhaps not in relation to her. Sexually frustrated, huh? I'm thinking how makes sense as a child, but am drawing a blank. I suck at interpretations, by the way (although I wish I were better at them). Could this somehow be connected to my preschool lover, whom I moved away from shortly after our first kiss? (Joking, but at the same time it is true)

I agree with the need to feel special. It's funny, looking back, at how I became bored so soon with normal living. "I can walk, talk, read and write. This 'daily living' routine is boring, so let me think of something better!"

There's some very very dark undertones here.


Weird.


I wathced an episode of Law and Order about incest last night, while we're on the topic.

We're always on the topic of incest.

It's Barry. He won't let me leave it. Also, he says he's not imaginary. I have my doubts.

I never had a good enough imagination to have an imaginary friend. Now I kind of wish I had've had one....

Abra, you might enjoy reading a similar thread on this topic:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ht=imagination

Can imaginary friends be only a voice? Mine keeps telling me if I kill my family he'll give me candy.

I had a poltergeist friend, does that count?

Originally Posted by CymekSniper

Can imaginary friends be only a voice? Mine keeps telling me if I kill my family he'll give me candy.

Do it! There is nothing better than candy!

Originally Posted by ExoByte

Do it! There is nothing better than candy!

Nawww, I'm not stupid. He's in my head and doesn't own any physical candy. Unless he's some sort of spirit and goes and gets me real candy, I guess my sword's gonna stay on the wall.

Originally Posted by CymekSniper

Nawww, I'm not stupid. He's in my head and doesn't own any physical candy. Unless he's some sort of spirit and goes and gets me real candy, I guess my sword's gonna stay on the wall.

lmao!

Reminds me of that caturday photo i posted "The voices tell me to kill you" :evilsmile:

Imaginary friends were a HUGE part of my childhood. My best friend and I created an imaginary world together and loved it. It was mostly what we spent time on when we were together (which was most of the time). We "believed" (although we always knew deep down it wasn't real, but tried to convince ourselves it was) that there were two worlds, the real material world and the imaginary world, and some select people had a special ability to see the imaginary world. This ability was called having the "spirit." We were the only ones we knew who had it. The imaginary world sort of overlapped the real world, with imaginary roads running through the woods in my friend's backyard, for example. We would take books of animals out of the library and then "order" them as pets on our imaginary cell phones by calling some random number we found in the book. We had an imaginary doctor and imaginary doors in our houses so that our friends could pass through. My main companion was Star, a golden retreiver who more or less understood English and was always with me. My imagination was pretty wild as a kid. I remember it being so much fun.

Friends...

Had an imaginary cell phone, with one button per power ranger type character, red one was always my favorite, I named them "The Twisters", or something equally lame. In the same preschool, had an amazing plush toy that could fold inside itself, I imagined it could talk walk etc, loved that thing. Have a nice heart warming story about it as well. Until recently, I had a Sonic character, always either Sonic, Knuckles or Tails, flying along with me behind or on the side of the car I was riding in. Sometimes later, it switched between whatever action character, or whoever I happened to be idolizing at the time. Sometimes even myself, flying along the poles and lights along side myself. Then it just turned into a blue blob, no longer Sonic, just a little thought running along beside me.
I wish he was still there.

Apparently I had a whole bunch of imaginary friends when I was quite young; the only one I can remember is Stingray though, and not much about him, aside from the obvious fact he was a stingray.

I can honestly say I had none. I tried, once, because I knew it was something a lot of kids supposedly did, but I soon got bored of it.

Originally Posted by no-name

Friends...

Had an imaginary cell phone, with one button per power ranger type character, red one was always my favorite, I named them "The Twisters", or something equally lame. In the same preschool, had an amazing plush toy that could fold inside itself, I imagined it could talk walk etc, loved that thing. Have a nice heart warming story about it as well. Until recently, I had a Sonic character, always either Sonic, Knuckles or Tails, flying along with me behind or on the side of the car I was riding in. Sometimes later, it switched between whatever action character, or whoever I happened to be idolizing at the time. Sometimes even myself, flying along the poles and lights along side myself. Then it just turned into a blue blob, no longer Sonic, just a little thought running along beside me.
I wish he was still there.

Why did you necro this thread? :/

I wonder just how many of us have done the car-ride thing. I did it too, but the characters were flat, and only lasted until the end of the ride. Trivial.

For as long as I can remember my grandmother maintained 2 houses on one property. There was her house, a smaller one she had homestead rights to, and "the big house" which is where 3 of her mentally retarded brothers lived as well as my greatgrandmother before she died.
The house had 3 bedrooms, a large dining room, kitchen and washroom, a small bathroom, mudroom and living room. It also had a huge attic which had about 6 beds in it for family when they visited. It was also one of my favorite playrooms as a kid.
Although I don't remember it, I aparently had an imaginary friend named "Who-who" who lived in the attic. One of my uncles encouraged the playmate, perhaps because I was innitally afraid of the attic or an owl or something.

When I was about 7 years old I thought my doll was possessed. I HATED that doll. She gave me some of the worst nightmares ever. My mom wanted to throw her away but I was certain her spirit would come back to haunt me after she was killed by the trash compactor, so I took her into the woods and left her there.
When we moved to Florida and I was about 10 years old, I thought another doll was possessed, and after speaking to a teacher about it, she took the doll and hid it.

Dolls still creep me out lol

I never had an imaginary friend, don't know anyone who had an imaginary friend and most probably don't know anyone who knows anyone who had an imaginary friend. First time I heard about this is from American TV shows and I came to a conclusion that it's an American (or western) thing.

Well...when I was really young, before I even knew about cat girls or that kind of stuff, I had this imaginary friend that, well...was a girl with cat ears and a tail. She wore a straw hat and some normal clothes.

I thought there was nothing else like her in the world...so she was very special to me

Originally Posted by slayer

I thought there was nothing else like her in the world...so she was very special to me

Till you found the internet...


I had an imaginary friend once, but similar to Mes in the sense that I tried it because I knew other kids had it, and I quickly became bored of it. It was essentially Big Bird with a candle on his head.

I don't think I've ever had an imaginary friend...

I would give life to my toys and stuffed animals though, if that counts. It was fun, but I guess it kind of went too far...At night, I would put them as comfortably as I could make them in my drawers(their "bedrooms" ) and let one of them sleep in my bed each night, out of fear that if they felt neglected they would revolt.

Some childhood memories, huh?

My siblings and I would create little worlds and act out stories in them. We've been doing since we were all very young. As far as my memory goes, so 3 yrs. old. We'd act them out practically every day, much more in the summer. We had a lot of characters, but a few prominent ones that appeared quite often and became our best friends. My little brother didn't have much of an imagination that he bothered to use, but he always tagged along anyway. (of course) We always gave him small little roles. It was pretty cool, the best part of my childhood I suppose. I remember once some of our friends were over, and we tried to get them involved, and they mostly thought we were freaks.

I couldn't have an imaginary friend by myself, I had to act it out and have someone else there with me, believing me and experiencing them too. When alone, I got bored easily. Luckily my older sibling was a lot like me, so we always got together and created the worlds, etc.

And of course, the stuffed animals. Weirdly, my younger sibling was the one who could participate in this. The older one thought it was mostly rubbish. He particapted sometimes, but not much. We created a world with them too, "Yamiland." Named all the separate regions, cities, etc. We had so many stuffed animals, and we gave all of them unique personalities. They lived their lives just like us, developing, going through conflicts, etc etc. My little brother outgrew it, but I still haven't. Only there's no one to do it with, makes me kind of sad.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I wouldn't really call it an imaginary friend, but I have these two chracters that reside within my head. I wouldn't realy call them characters (in lack of a better word..), as they are me. Like me, split into two parts. I guess it could be the dark side vs. the uhm light side? But anyway, they are two different personalities. and they argue over everything. One is always laughing at the other, and mocking the actions of the other. They like to say, "I told you so" a lot to eachother, too. I guess this is why I talk to myself so much. I'll be thinking in my head with one, and the other one wil speak out loud to the other, advising it, or something. I think it's one of the reasons why I'm so indecisive. It's amazing when they both agree, then I can be real happy. :3

Anyway.

rofl with Xox! I understand completely!!
When I was about 13 years old I wrote each side of my personality down on a piece of paper, gave them a name and a symbol I associated with them. It was crazy how complex it became. But I tried becoming the predominant quality of those different aspects.
"April" (my birth name) was regular, boring old, plain jane me. Crysania was my spiritual, adventurous side. I don't remember any of the others. I KNEW all of them were me, but I wanted to cultivate and become each aspect separate of the others. It never did work though
To this day though I still have 2 selves (sometimes 3) residing in my brain, each encouraging me toward one direction or another. I, too, am very indecissive most of the time. And in life I can see all sides to any given problem, path or outcome. I make the best "devil's advocate" but my friends ended up getting frustrated with me because I couldn't join their "let's kill the jerk" reactions but would point out where the other person was coming from

Originally Posted by mysterious dreamer

I never had an imaginary friend, don't know anyone who had an imaginary friend and most probably don't know anyone who knows anyone who had an imaginary friend. First time I heard about this is from American TV shows and I came to a conclusion that it's an American (or western) thing.

... Interesting! I hadn't considered that it might just be a Western thing.

Originally Posted by Higurashi

I don't think I've ever had an imaginary friend...

I would give life to my toys and stuffed animals though, if that counts.

Yeah I did do that, though.