imaginary friends

I was born in 1947, and for the first seven years of my life had an outside toilet, which really frightened me.It was dark, cold & lonely so I invented three friends who could come with me, David, Dennis & Helen. I kept these friends for many years & mother was so worried she actually went to the Doctors about me. He said it was because at that time I was an "only" child.

Val

until the age of about 4 years, i believed that little peope (elves) lived at the bottom of my bed. Only i could see them, and they only came out after dark. They had a world world on the bottom of my bed, with farms and schools and houses. They had special hats wich allowed them to fly up to me. some world tiggle my toes and feet while they worked on the farm. Others would sit on my knee and tell me things about every thing. they were always friends and i was never scared.

Claire

When my sis and I were younger, we would play make-believe mermaids. One day one of our mermaids was having a baby, so we had a lengthy discussion on mermaid reproduction. Obviously they couldn't have a baby the "normal" way, pooping one out (lol- I don't know why so many people believed this), because they had no legs. (Of course we had fish and had seen them poo, but...) So it would have to come out their mouths, as that's the only other way to get something out of their stomach. I said they must have vomited them up, and she agreed, but we decided that was way too disgusting. They didn't lay eggs like fish because they were half-people, so because they were magic they could burp up a bubble with the baby inside (it would grow in the bubble, after it came out of her mouth). Never looked at bubbles in the same way again. We really elaborated on this, and decided that after it started to grow she could sing a magic song and decide how it would look and what age it would be when the bubble popped, if she just wanted to skip it being a baby altogether and have an 8-year-old.

Ka

When me and my sisters were younger and afraid of the dark, my mum told us that imaginary creatures called 'biddies' would line up at the end of our beds to look after us in the nite. They were triangular in shape with little faces. They got me thru the nite for years!!! I also used to draw them all the time and ask my mum if that is what they looked like, to which she would say yes. Thanx mum!!!

Jude Horrocks

After I had a dream about a small white dog, I turned him into an imaginary friend. I went around telling the other kids that I had an invisable dog! i got very upset when my mom didnt believe me. Some of the kids seemed to kind of believe me though.

Chrissie

I used to have an imaginary friend as a kid called Mick and I used to shout at my parents not to stand on him (cos they almost did all the time) cos he was only about a foot tall and he used to tell me to pick rubbish up in the street to keep him alive. I stopped doing it and he disaapeared over time :( goes to show its all psychological

Spindle

i used to have a n imaginary friend who would only appear when we were onl ong car journeys and would jump along outside the car as we went along. he wasn't aloud to touch the floor and he wasn't allowed to stop, but he could jump for miles! lol@me,

Jexy.

I used to believe that my imaginary pals lived in two places and I would talk to them when I visited. My friends were called The Shaggy People, purely because they had very long fur! They were green, red, blue and yellow and looked a bit like Muppets. Except all you could see of them was their long fur, eyes and feet. They lived in the school toilets on the wall there and also in the waiting shelter on the platform of Brough Railway Station.When I was on a train going through Brough they would line up on the platform to greet me.

Anne

my imaginary friend was the cheshire cat (as in from Alice in Wonderland). He always used to pop up and give me riddles, an tell me to do stuff (which i always did, even if it was naughty....i mean would you argue with a cat with a mouth that size??) When people asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up, i always said the cheshire cat...he was my inspiration :P

Bexy

I had 2 imaginary friends, they were cowboys called Tommy and Jackson. Tommy was an eldery cowboy, and Jackson was a young man. They wore jeans and checked shirts with leather waist-coats. We watched The Lone Ranger together. Ahhh those where the days!

ruth

when I was seven i thought that that tingling feeling when the skin on your face tightens was my imaginary friend. I called it spirit and used to talk to it when i was at school. (I'd seen the tempest on tv and thought i had an aerial like that).

dolly

When I was younger I had an imaginary guy friend named Jonny. Jonny was a sailor, and he was mean. When I did something wrong I would tell them that Jonny mad me do them.

Ashaliegh

I used to have two imaginary fiends who both looked like Jerry out of Tom and Jerry. One was Diggy (who was red) and one was Gog (Blue). Gog was responsible for anything that was broken/eaten/ruined and Diggy would always tell him off. Diggy was also there to back me up when telling my parents that Gog had done everything. I swear they could see him but blamed me anyway.

Paul N