Imaginary Friends

Never had an imaginary friend, but I always laugh, when I think of the Gimme-A-Break episode when Samantha had an imaginary friend named "Sally-Joe." Sadly, Sally-Joe was killed when the father, enraged at the imaginary friend, "accidentally" tore Sally-Joe's head off. I watched too much T.V. in the 80's.

Holy crap, Brian, I totally forgot about that episode. The father was a real hard-ass and I remember how he was pushed over the edge by this imaginary friend.

Good call.

I had an imaginary friend named Jimmy. Don't really remember anything about it, I just know because my family never lets me forget it.

My little brother had an imaginary friend named Amy that he used to play with when I was off at playschool. But you might also want to take in the fact that we lived in a very haunted house and my little brother also remembers a man always jumping out at him trying to scare him and also elderly woman in the basement.

Gonna sound wierd but making a doc on imaginary friends, does anyone know any children or adults who have them? Please contact me if u do! Many Thanks
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When I was 2 to 4 years old, my Mom wrote in a book that I had an imaginary friend named Arjid. I don't remember this at all. I just found out recently that Arjid means "Highness" in an extinct gaelic language called Manx. Which has me wondering what it may have all been about... E-mail me if anyone has any thoughts about this.

Yo, I /am/ an imaginary friend, and my imaginer didn't stop at 5 years old or I wouldn't be writing this! :)

I've got one named James or my apt. is haunted.

i am fascinated with the idea of people having imaginary friends and the way they act towards them and how they treat them so if ne1 has 1 plz could you contact me i am also doing an art project on imaginary friends hearing that people have imaginary friends like animals humans and monsters and i wanted to get a rough idea of what peoples look like so i can put it into a painting much appreciated

I am approaching 26 and still have imaginary friends. I like to hang out with characters from movies and old friends from high school (some enemies, but when we hang out, we're all the best of friends) Please tell me I'm not alone.

I am 22 and have always had imaginary characters who all have their own names, personalities, likes, dislikes, etc. I don't know if I'd call them imaginary "friends" since I don't really have conversations with them.

My imaginary friend was Joanie from Happy Days. Actually I pretended to play with the whole cast - I was in love with Potsie Webber. He was my imaginary boyfriend. Why a 5/6 year old needed a boyfriend, I couldn't say. I was nearly insane with delight when there when Leather Tuscadero showed up on the show, cause I thought it was Heather they were saying...

My brother's two-year-old daughter has a couple of imaginary friends. I think that in a lot of cases, the imaginary friend is a way for a kid to demonstrate to their parents how happy they would be if only they had a little brother or sister. They may not know how to ask a parent to get into the reproductive mode, so this is what they do. Theater is born.

I was seventh of eight kids. It was hell--always someone older with claims of seniority, but nothing else, as a reason to pick on you. Therefore, I had imaginary "no friends," meaning, I often dreamed of being an only child. I suppose it was good training for the corporate world. Now that I'm hassled at the office daily, I dream of owning my own business.

I'm 18 and I have had an imaginary soap opera full of fictional characters going on in my head since I was a preschooler. At least it keeps me from getting bored too easily.

MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS WERE MY ACCTUALLY MY BEST FRIENDS. I MADE BELIEVE THEY WERE AROUND. OR MADE BELIEVE THAT I PARANTS ADOPTED THEM AND WE BECAME BROTHERS

HI,

I'm 22 ... I've had imaginary friends since I was a little girl...and I still have them around me...and I do have conversations with them...they have different names with different characteristics...I never know if it's good or bad!...I'm just doing some researches on this subject...

Do you know if it means that there's something wrong with me?

I think I have an imaginary friend, I don't really see him so much as feel and hear him. He advises me, reminds me of lessons I have already learned, comforts me when I'm lonley, makes me laugh when I'm sad and oddly enough helps me do alot of my writing. When I'm writing and I hit a block, I think of him-picture what he looks like and all of a sudden the block is gone. I read over the writing later and can't remember writing half of it. It's weird cause I don't see him in a physical form but I can completely describe him right down to his approximate age. Maybe I'm crazy. By the way I'm 31, with two kids and I encourage my kids to have imaginary friends;unfortunately my husband does not.

Thought my Ex was my friend......Must have imagined it.

I am 21 years old and i remember having imaginary friends as a young child, especially in kindergarten because i didnt have any friends, i use to talk to them all the time while i was swinging on the swing at school. I use "play" family, and had a daughter and a son, Molly and Jonathan. I was the mother, and would "pretend" to do all the house work, and also be a school teacher, which i am going to school in Earlychildhood Education, which now inspire me to go to school. I still had many "friends" besides the real friends, and even my cat Ty knows who they are.....

i think casper also lives in my apt as well. we are all one big happy family

Ok, well my parents told me that I had an imaginary friend named Sarah. Funny thing is I didn't remember it. I had my youngest daughter 2 yrs ago. and I named her Sarah. When my mother told me that , Sarah was my imag. friends name as a child. I got shivers up my spine. It was too canny. Who knows, maybe I really liked the name then, and obviously still do....Not leaving any options out though. :) Who knows

I've had plenty of imaginary friends over the years who "de-materialized" right after I'd run out of money at the bar. Mostly females. What a schmuck...

I have an imaginary friend and I'm 16. I was kinda thinking I was the only one this old who had one. Nice to know I'm not alone.

I have plenty of imaginary friends that I call mental associates or characters. I don't talk to all of them though. I'm 24 years old and still creating imaginary friends. I mainly talk to three. I just recently joined a sector of five sectors that they asked me to join, and now I'm doing profiles for at least most of them. There are too many to do it all! I'm just recently now seeing them in dreams and stuff. One of my characters in the dream actually signed me up to join the team. I suppose to have been going to what they call the Hylasscouse, which is the "dream world" or the "astral world" as some people call it to have a welcoming conference, but instead, she just signed me in herself since, for me, it's so hard to get there. I'm enjoying this, but now I want them to become separate from me so they can have their own mind, and that's what I'm aiming for, because it's not fun having 100% telepathic capabilties with them knowing what they are going to say and do, hehe. In other words, it's not fun talking to myself all of the time. So now, seeing them in dreams give me hope that one day, they will speak with a separate voice.