Imaginary friends

Linaewen · 03-28-2004, 07:38 AM

I'm watching the Melbourne Comedy Festival right now, and one of the comedians was talking about her kid who had an imaginary friend...who they didn't like.

I never had one, but I was wondering if anyone here did? (I hope you liked your imaginary friends though.

) I think it's a bizarre thing, really.

Now come meet Erik over here, but he's a bit shy. He's waving hello at you now.

katya · 03-28-2004, 10:59 AM

My cousin had an imaginary friend that he called Jesus.

No joke! As for me, I had an imaginary friend named Eek. She had a sister named Dressesoda. I'm told that Dressesoda was invented shortly before Eek left, so maybe I was trying to find her a new playmate?

Eowyn, Lady of Rohan · 03-28-2004, 11:05 AM

When I was, 4-6 I had 2 imaginary friends, Jackie Leann and Kiki. I used to watch The Puzzle Place (really a little kids show) and that's where Kiki came from. Somehow Kiki was absent more that Jackie Leann. When I did something wrong, I always blamed it on Jackie Leann. But Kiki was just sort of in the back of my head. She was never around very much.

Lalaith_Elf · 03-28-2004, 11:24 AM

Yeah I had lots of imaginary friends. Actually I have to admit I still do and I talk to them on a regular basis. Did I just admit that? Ooops!

They come and go. Some I have lost forever

and some always return to me. I like having imaginary friends. If you don't feel like associating with your real friends then imaginary ones are always there to make you happy - unless they're p***ed off with you and then they can be right b******s!

Bombadillo · 03-28-2004, 05:31 PM

Back in the first grade, everyone would hold imaginary friend battles. Thinking back on it now, it must have been the least fun game I have ever played, because of course no one could agree on the abilities of the opposing imaginary friend. Those phonies made for some real tension.

And in the third grade we confused the hell out of our teacher by saying that she sat on Fred! We had different people explaining him as "the new kid" and "her imaginary friend." She took it so seriously. That was fun.

Sminty_Smeagol · 03-28-2004, 06:46 PM

I never had one. I wish I could

hectorberlioz · 03-28-2004, 11:19 PM

If I wasnt Hector Berlioz himself (or rather; myself), I would have a Berlioz imaghinary friend

.
Never had one, though I did use to imagine the "evil ant man", which was whenever I saw an ant, I thought it would turn into a robber and mug me

Lady Ravyn · 03-28-2004, 11:31 PM

i had 3, and they all had the weirdest names i've ever heard of (i swear i think of better names for my story characters... the first one was Hockin, and he came to me when i was feeling lonely at a family picnic at which i was the only little kid besides my creepy older cousins (who were both boys and thought themselves so cool

). the second one was Hockalla, who was Hockin's sister, and she came to me when i was thrown in my room for being bad (i don't remember why). and the third was Pee-Wee, who was my favorite cuz she was the most adventurous. they all went away in kindergarten when i was the only girl who would play batman with the boys cuz none of the other girls watched that sort of stuff (

) (i was always cat woman

) and they came back in first grade when i started my life-long destiny of being shunned by my classmates.
boy, a shrink would have a fun time with me, eh? lol does anyone have a clear picture of what their imaginary friends looked like? (i forget what mine looked like)

sun-star · 03-29-2004, 09:56 AM

I had loads of imaginary friends when I was younger (and real ones too, before anyone gets clever

). I think it's a great thing - if adults could preserve the imaginations we had as children life would be more fun

Lalaith_Elf, I still talk to mine too

Beruthiel's cat · 03-29-2004, 10:39 AM

I was just talking about this a couple of weeks ago with a friend (and fellow writer) at work. She had an immaginary friend as a child and so did I, and we wondered if it contributed to our being aspiring writers in later life!

I actually had three immaginary friends at the same time. They were mice named Jeepie, Meepie and Creepie and they could go between the walls in the house and come out through their invisible mouse-holes in any room and at my house and even visit at my grandmother's! I was about three years old at the time and my oldest brother was just a baby. I had another immaginary friend also, but I don't remember her as well. My mother remembers when I got upset because she closed the door and shut her in the bedroom!

I think very immaginative, creative children have immaginary friends and I have a feeling these kids are usually only children or oldest children. (At least the ones I've talked to have been...)

***Valandil*** · 03-29-2004, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Linaewen
Now come meet Erik over here, but he's a bit shy. He's waving hello at you now.

Oh! I never knew Erik was a six-foot tall white rabbit! Hello Erik!

Some of the rest of you people are scaring me!

Lalaith_Elf · 03-29-2004, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sun-star
Lalaith_Elf, I still talk to mine too

Thank the Valar I'm not the only one!

Quote:

Some of the rest of you people are scaring me!

Good!

Beruthiel's cat · 03-29-2004, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Valandil
Some of the rest of you people are scaring me!

Well, some of us still make up immaginary friends. We just write 'em down and post them on an RPG!!!

***Valandil*** · 03-29-2004, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beruthiel's cat
Well, some of us still make up immaginary friends. We just write 'em down and post them on an RPG!!!

Oh shoot... I got friends like that... but mine are not 'imaginery'... they're REAL!!

***Tessar*** · 03-29-2004, 05:03 PM

I don't think I've ever had one, but I know my older sister (Mirel Stormrider) had a 'pet' puppy.

She used to amuse my parents greatly by say 'Heeeeere puppy puppy!' and beckoning with a finger. Then when her 'puppy' was in range she'd swing her arm and yell 'WHAP!'

I still feel sorry for that imaginary dog...

I do still talk to myself though. I'm my friend. Does that count?

katya · 03-29-2004, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beruthiel's cat

I think very immaginative, creative children have immaginary friends and I have a feeling these kids are usually only children or oldest children. (At least the ones I've talked to have been...)

Interesting thought. I'm an oldest child, and I had imaginary friends- my little brother didn't.

Lalaith_Elf · 03-29-2004, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tessar
I don't think I've ever had one, but I know my older sister (Mirel Stormrider) had a 'pet' puppy.

She used to amuse my parents greatly by say 'Heeeeere puppy puppy!' and beckoning with a finger. Then when her 'puppy' was in range she'd swing her arm and yell 'WHAP!'

I still feel sorry for that imaginary dog...

I do still talk to myself though. I'm my friend. Does that count?

I always talk to myself, so I guess it does count!

I've been talking to myself recently actually - my imaginary friends are on a holiday to Amsterdam!

Nice of them to invite me!!!

Sminty_Smeagol · 03-29-2004, 06:37 PM

maybe only chidlren and oldest chidlren are the most likely to make up imaginary friends... when you have an older sibling you have some really cool person to look up to and aspire to lol

***Tessar*** · 03-29-2004, 08:10 PM

... I some how don't see that sminty. You must be an only child :-p

Estel13 · 03-29-2004, 10:24 PM

My imaginary friends took the names and faces of characters from movies and video games.

It's ok, I still talk to them, too.

03-28-2004, 07:38 AM	#1
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	Imaginary friends I'm watching the Melbourne Comedy Festival right now, and one of the comedians was talking about her kid who had an imaginary friend...who they didn't like. I never had one, but I was wondering if anyone here did? (I hope you liked your imaginary friends though. ) I think it's a bizarre thing, really. Now come meet Erik over here, but he's a bit shy. He's waving hello at you now.

03-28-2004, 11:05 AM	#3
Eowyn, Lady of Rohan The Evil One Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: here, on the moot Posts: 804	When I was, 4-6 I had 2 imaginary friends, Jackie Leann and Kiki. I used to watch The Puzzle Place (really a little kids show) and that's where Kiki came from. Somehow Kiki was absent more that Jackie Leann. When I did something wrong, I always blamed it on Jackie Leann. But Kiki was just sort of in the back of my head. She was never around very much. __________________ GO RED SOX Evanescence, Green Day, Weezer, the Click Five, Train...The best song artists and singers ever! You laugh cuz i'm different, i laugh cuz ur all the same!!!

03-28-2004, 11:24 AM	#4
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	Yeah I had lots of imaginary friends. Actually I have to admit I still do and I talk to them on a regular basis. Did I just admit that? Ooops! They come and go. Some I have lost forever and some always return to me. I like having imaginary friends. If you don't feel like associating with your real friends then imaginary ones are always there to make you happy - unless they're p*ed off with you and then they can be right b****s! __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

03-28-2004, 05:31 PM	#5
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Back in the first grade, everyone would hold imaginary friend battles. Thinking back on it now, it must have been the least fun game I have ever played, because of course no one could agree on the abilities of the opposing imaginary friend. Those phonies made for some real tension. And in the third grade we confused the hell out of our teacher by saying that she sat on Fred! We had different people explaining him as "the new kid" and "her imaginary friend." She took it so seriously. That was fun. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

03-28-2004, 06:46 PM	#6
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	I never had one. I wish I could __________________ I love the fishes.

03-28-2004, 10:59 AM	#2
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	My cousin had an imaginary friend that he called Jesus. No joke! As for me, I had an imaginary friend named Eek. She had a sister named Dressesoda. I'm told that Dressesoda was invented shortly before Eek left, so maybe I was trying to find her a new playmate?

03-28-2004, 11:19 PM	#7
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03-28-2004, 11:31 PM	#8
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	i had 3, and they all had the weirdest names i've ever heard of (i swear i think of better names for my story characters... the first one was Hockin, and he came to me when i was feeling lonely at a family picnic at which i was the only little kid besides my creepy older cousins (who were both boys and thought themselves so cool ). the second one was Hockalla, who was Hockin's sister, and she came to me when i was thrown in my room for being bad (i don't remember why). and the third was Pee-Wee, who was my favorite cuz she was the most adventurous. they all went away in kindergarten when i was the only girl who would play batman with the boys cuz none of the other girls watched that sort of stuff () (i was always cat woman ) and they came back in first grade when i started my life-long destiny of being shunned by my classmates. boy, a shrink would have a fun time with me, eh? lol does anyone have a clear picture of what their imaginary friends looked like? (i forget what mine looked like) __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-29-2004, 09:56 AM	#9
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I had loads of imaginary friends when I was younger (and real ones too, before anyone gets clever ). I think it's a great thing - if adults could preserve the imaginations we had as children life would be more fun Lalaith_Elf, I still talk to mine too __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

03-29-2004, 10:39 AM	#10
Beruthiel's cat mystical divinity of Unashamed Felinity Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New York's beautiful North Coast -- we're all mad here!!! Posts: 635	I was just talking about this a couple of weeks ago with a friend (and fellow writer) at work. She had an immaginary friend as a child and so did I, and we wondered if it contributed to our being aspiring writers in later life! I actually had three immaginary friends at the same time. They were mice named Jeepie, Meepie and Creepie and they could go between the walls in the house and come out through their invisible mouse-holes in any room and at my house and even visit at my grandmother's! I was about three years old at the time and my oldest brother was just a baby. I had another immaginary friend also, but I don't remember her as well. My mother remembers when I got upset because she closed the door and shut her in the bedroom! I think very immaginative, creative children have immaginary friends and I have a feeling these kids are usually only children or oldest children. (At least the ones I've talked to have been...) __________________ "Never try to out-stubborn a cat!" -- R. Heinlein ~~~~~~~~~ "But I don't want to be among mad people, " Alice remarked. "Oh, but you can't help that," said the Cat; "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." ~~ Lewis Carroll ~~~~~~~~~~~ Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana...

03-29-2004, 05:03 PM	#15
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I don't think I've ever had one, but I know my older sister (Mirel Stormrider) had a 'pet' puppy. She used to amuse my parents greatly by say 'Heeeeere puppy puppy!' and beckoning with a finger. Then when her 'puppy' was in range she'd swing her arm and yell 'WHAP!' I still feel sorry for that imaginary dog... I do still talk to myself though. I'm my friend. Does that count?

03-29-2004, 06:37 PM	#18
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	maybe only chidlren and oldest chidlren are the most likely to make up imaginary friends... when you have an older sibling you have some really cool person to look up to and aspire to lol __________________ I love the fishes.

03-29-2004, 08:10 PM	#19
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	... I some how don't see that sminty. You must be an only child :-p

03-29-2004, 10:24 PM	#20
Estel13 RPG-aholic Psycho Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Final Fantasy Posts: 733	My imaginary friends took the names and faces of characters from movies and video games. It's ok, I still talk to them, too. __________________

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