imaginary friends

As early as I can remember and up until the age of five, I had an imaginary friend whose name was Nanik. I don't know whether it was a girl of a boy, I don't know how old it was, I don't know what it looked like, I don't know were its name came from (it's definitly not a regular name in France!) I just know it lived in the bathroom inside a big driyer closet we used to have. Its voice was the echo of my voice in the closet. I used to talk with Nanik for hours (or what seemed to be hours) telling stories, telling my life. In my family, everyone knew who was Nanik, it was like a family member. My parent would say: "So, how's Nanik today", and I would smile back...

This message is just a tribute to my good friend Nanik.

Sophie

Whenever I watched a TV show, film or read a book, if it was about little talking animals, i'd pick 1-2 of my favourite characters and they'd follow me around for a few weeks. The most memorable is that once i was followed around for a month by Beatrix Potter's character, Samuel Whiskers, and his wife, Anna Maria.

Lily Goodier

I used to believe that all the characters in the cereal commercials were real and that some day they would come off of the box and talk to me like they did on t.v.

Steph

i used to have an imaginary friend named Gordy. Gordy was a cow and he was my friend for a few years. unfortunately the hamburger factory started looking for him and they eventually caught him in California. My friends and i will never forget him.

Heidi

after i saw cinderella for the first time, i loved that she was friends with all the cute little mice. so of course i wanted to be friends with all the cute little mice. so i made mine up. i can remeber sitting in my room talking to them and my mother walked by and asked me what i was doing, i looked at her and said talking to my mice friends. i out grew that after a few weeks.

marie

I just got to this site and though I'm not much older than when these people talk about, I want to tell about my favourite belief, the Light People, who I saw one day when I was lying on my back and little light sparks looked like they came out of my lightbulb. I used to ask them questions and it was comforting.

Anon

I used to believe that the smurfs were real. There was this huge cluster of Pine trees by our house when we were little. Tons of mushrooms would grow under there.
My sister would say "I just saw a smurf!" and I would scurry under the pine trees to find it!! :D

Julia Meachum

I used to believe that the cast of the Partridge Family was in my desk at school. I could look inside and watch re-runs of the show because if they could shrink themselves to fit inside the tv, surely they could shrink to fit inside my desk. I really could see them in there; that is the scary part ;-)

David Cassidy Fan

When I was growing up, I had an imaginary friend named Hammer. My mom told me that one day I was very upset and crying. She asked me what was wrong, and I told her that Hammer died. Mom said that a couple days later I was really happy again, and I told her that Hammer was alive again.

All of my aunts and uncles knew I had an imaginary friend. They sometimes still make fun of me and ask me about Hammer.

Jamie

We all believed in guardian angels and so my dad told us to name them. I named mine Danny (after a boy I liked) and my sister named hers Peanut Butter. We thought they would do things for us like be an alarm clock in the morning or find parking spots for us. My dad still believes it works.

Anon

when i was younger, i had an imaginary friend, liam i called him, we used to go everywhere together, till one day, we climbed the tree in my back garden, it was all going well, he told me not to worry about anything and that if i got into trouble i would be ok. but that wasnt the case, when i was near the top of the tree my foot slipped and i fell down hard, hitting the back of my head on the concrete slabs, i was rushed to hospital right away, i split the back of my head open, and now i have a phobia of any thing that is higher than me,i also cant bare to walk past trees, because of my "imaginary" friend.

Anon

I had two imagniary friends. Carol and Jacko. Jacko looked like the Fonz (from the TV show Happy Days) and was my best friend. He hung around for a while then one day he broke his arm and died.

Carol had split personality disorder. There was "good" Carol and "bad" Carol. Bad Carol made me cut ALL my hair off when I was about 4. I looked like a little boy...was my dad HOT!
I remember crying and telling my mom that "bad Carol made me do it!!"

T T

Starting when I was about 5 until I was about 10, I was the instructor at an imaginary boarding school for girls. I used to teach them how to bathe and shampoo as well as how to be a model in TV commercials. I guess that entertained me thru the mundane everyday stuff. I'm now 32 and I'm still bored with mundane everyday stuff, but I don't have an imaginary boarding school for girls.

Kim Perry

I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....

Tina

When I was little I had an imaginary friend Day-Day. She was my best friend. My family members frequently tried to trick me and say they saw Day-Day somewhere, but they couldn't fool me, she was always with me. I was sad the day she had to leave me...

Renee