Imaginary friend

I do. There's two of them. The name's secret. I realize i made/imagine them based on my real friends, but with characteristic that i prefer. I didn't really talk to that imaginary friends. I just imagine they are here, how they act. Like when i cook, i imagine them beside me criticizing my curry, and so on. Did i sounds scary? Well, you are the one raising this topic.

Sometimes children like that which they always talking when they are alone. But the reality is here like here in mylot we are chatting to someone we didnot seen which some of us here using imaginary avatar. like not real picture... but we call it them friends...

I didn't have one when I was little. In High School we made up voices. Mine was Russell the troll, but I didn't believe he was real.

I don't remember having one and my parents never mentioned it. However, my oldest daughter did have one.She was almost reaching two years old when this started. She actually named her "Easy" and I played along with her. I didn't want her to feel different or alone for that matter. So I would set the table for the three of us. She would say becareful mom you are going to sit on her. She would play with her dolls as if "Easy" was there playing with her. When her baby sister was born when she was now 2 1/2 that is when "Easy" disappeared never to be heard of again.

Dear Ms bingskee I have one today at 38 The fact that I am to stay all alone in that house with almost no one to talk to... I think it is sometimes good to stand up in front of some mirror and start chatting with my ownself about how weak I have become and things like this... but nothing beyond. and that too happens once in many months... I know if it became a habit the landlady would think I have gone insane

Hi bingskee.. that was pretty scary. If I have a child I would not let him have an imaginary friend too. I don't think it is healthy enough for a kid to talk to himself or an imaginary friend. Although there were times when I was little that I used to talk to someone too but that's just like talking to myself too. And I don't do it everyday. ;)

Talking to an Imaginary friend really appears weird to me. The problem is such concepts can really take ur kids to psychotic problems in extreme cases. They just initially pretend that there is someone like that and finally they would start believing in them. Once they start believing, then it would be hard to pull them back. Its better not to plug in some unwanted notions in our kids minds.

I don't remember having an imaginary friend when I was a little girl and I don't remember Kathryn having an imaginary friend either. However, Paul had an imaginary friend that was a part of his life for about two years. He called him Tommy and Tommy was always there playing with him. The last time that I heard from Tommy was when he was walking into school with Paul on his first day of kindergarten and I haven't heard about him since. I guess Paul decided to leave him at school when he started.

I honestly do not remember having an imaginary friend. Although who knows. I do remember me being my best friend. I would use my imagination to play, but not with an invisible person. I sometimes still think that I am still my best friend.

I too have heard many stories like that and I completely agree with about not encouraging the same.

I don't think I had one when I was a child. My mom would also discourage me to talk to myself when I was alone.I used to play with my barbie dolls and I would pretend that they were talking to each other. I don't think I would encourage my child to have an imaginary friend,I would rather let write her own diary where she can express her feelings. I think this is also healthy.

I don't remember having an imaginary friend in my childhood. But i notice with kids that when they play alone they seem to be talking with someone and it seems normal to their age. I mean, these kids really have a great imagination but as they grow old they seem to outgrow it. It must have been a phase a child goes through, i'm not sure.

Hmmm imaginary friend.......what is the necessity to have an imaginary friend. I don't think it is necessary. It like giving an fallacy to an small kid which could bring about disastrous repercussion in the future in the mind and behaviour of the child. It absolutely an unnecessary proposition as far as i am concerned

I remember something about an imaginary friend when i was younger..... but that lasted not even 1 hour xD! My father explaind to me that this imaginary friend did not exist so could not be real and that it would be much more fun to find a real friend! Which i did.

I had a couple of imaginary friends when I was a child. One of those friends was a girl called Trine and I often played with her and made up stories about her. I had another imaginary friend called a Bactus and he was a character from the book that I had read. My father has told me about one experience from my childhood. I don't remember the experience myself because I was only a few years old when it happened. One day my father and I were in the car and I told my father that we had forgotten Bactus and that we had to drive back and pick him up. At first my father refused, but he got tired of hearing about it, so he decided to drive back to place where we were 5 minutes earlier and "pick up" my imaginary friend. We got back and he opened the door and said: "All right Bactus, get in the car" and then we left. The other drivers probably thought that he was crazy

I was the first sibling born into my family. so i was alone for a dew years and there were not any children my age to play with in the neighborhood so i made an imaginary friend as well. sometimes that imaginary friend saw me through some hard and lonesone days and i am not ashamed to have had that imaginary froiend in my life and I would not try to shame another oerson from having an imaginary friend either.

Honestly, I have not only one. I have 7 of them. I am 20 years old now. I still have 3. I am not ashamed of it. I don't know if I am crazy but they helped me in some point of time in life when I need to talk to someone and let my ideas to wild. I think, this imaginary friend thing is really beneficial, not some bad thing happening. It gives creativity and happiness when some real people is not around. :)