imaginary friends

When I was five I used to belive I had a boyfriend named Darren who had a red ute and would take me on romantic dates to Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Erin Jones

I used to believe that "shadow-cats" lived on my bedroom walls. They were sort of cat silhouettes/shadows that would jump on and play about on the other shadows on my walls.

Thomas

Since my name is Wendy, I was enchanted with the movie Peter Pan. I imagined I had my very own Peter Pan who I had lots of adventures with every day.

My mom loves to tell this story:

My cousin, who copied everything I did was in the shopping cart with me while my mother was standing in line at the (very crowded) grocery store. Apparently we were playing with our imaginary Peter Pan friends because I suddenly looked at my cousin and announced in a loud voice, "My Peter is green, what color is yours?"

~Wendy

my aunt used to have an imaginary friend who instead of having blood had 7-up in her veins.

Anon

My mother used to tell me that there was another world called the dopple-ganger world which was exactly the same as this world with people doing exactly the same things as we did on this world. There was another me and another mum on the dopple-ganger world having this exact conversation at this exact time.

She told me that the dopple-ganger world was the real world, and this world was just a simulation.

She also said that whenever we went on holidays the dopple-ganger gods got really angry because they had to do extra work making the simulation. (Normally they just had to simulate our house, school, the supermarket etc...)

I never really believed her, but I thought that was a pretty twisted thing for a mother to say to her daughter.

Anon

I used to have an Imaginary Friend named, "Caitlin". She was about 16 or 17 and she always wore a pink shirt with a pink skirt. She also had a pink purse with pink shiney stuff on her lips, which at the time I didn't know was lip gloss. She would always teach me stuff, but what she said was wrong. Like once she told me that roses are really just tiny gypsie dancers. And Caitlin would sometimes read to me but she would always hold the book upside down! Then one day I moved into my new house and she was gone.

Katie

When I was little, I didn't have an imaginary friend, but I had an imaginary enemy named dave. I was always trying to get rid of him!

mh

I remember watching Captain Planet...He's this superhero who has 5 human friends with powers of things like water and fire and wind and junk...they all would get together with their rings, and I had a cheap junky ring that I thought made me like those superhero's friends. So whenever I wore the plastic ring, I believed I could see and talk to Captain Planet...Like he'd be hovering three feet above my head...I'd even get mad at him and yell...My mom thought I was insane. Apparently an over-active imagination wasn't an explanation.

EmAufder

I used to have an imaginary friend I called Maple Syrup. I thought that was the prettiest name. Had no clue that it was what you put on pancakes at the time!

Anonymous

My friend had an imaginary friend when she was younger, named Julie. One day her parents told her she was too old to play with Julie, and that it was time to play with other girls. Then, a few weeks later, she came in to dinner and her little sister said: "Don't sit there! That's where Julie sits!"

Imagine her shock! Her little sister had stolen Julie.

Amber

When my sister and I were little, we would get bored on family vacations, so one day we invented our own imaginary trailer full of imaginary pets. We had around 30 animals in it: horses, dogs, rabbits, everything. The chicks would always get loose in my grandmother's basement, so we'd spend a good 10 minutes rounding them up again (and hurting ourselves in the process). Then, anytime we left someplace, we'd always have to check the back of the car to make sure the trailer was hooked up, and we'd always freak out on mountains, thinking the trailer would come loose and roll all the way down the hill.

Anon

When I was little, like 4 or 5, I had an imaninary friend named Jemma. I also have a real life sister named Emma... so things sometimes got confusing. One day, my dad sat down at the table and I started to cry because he had just squished Jemma, but he miss heard me and jumped up and yelled, thinking he had sat on my sister. OH well.. I still have Emma, but sometimes Jemma might be better.

Anon

More my brother's belief: He had an imaginary childhood friend called Batty Edwards who used to come on our camping holiday to Wales each summer and stay in the tattiest old tin caravan on the whole site. My brother quite happy with his "friend" but the rest of us were frightened to death and imagined a sort of serial killer hiding out in there!

Anon

I used to have an imaginary friend when I was 3 and we used to play ball and he would always win. He was really tall and would make fun of me( I can't remember his name). One day we were outside and he spotted the kid across the street and said he wanted to play with him instead. I said ok I'll see you later and he said yeah whatever loser.That for some reason was before my first day of preschool.

Penny Lane

When i was little i had many imaginary friends that i thought were actually there. there names are as follows: luke skywalker, yoshi, captain hook, zorro, casper the friendly ghost, r2d2, and long john silver. one time i actually made a birthday cake for yoshi and we had a party with my neighbors. and i yelled at my father and scared him one time telling him "DAD YOU ARE STANDING ON CASPER'S TAIL!!!!" and that scared him but he laughed. i know now that they are not real.

lonely child

I used to believe Peter Pan was going to come for me at night, like he did for Wendy. So before I went to bed, I would have to brush my hair and put on my best dress, laying it out perfectly on the bed, as to be ready when he came.

The jerk stood me up!

Mary

There was a forested area behind my back yard when I was a child. One of the largest trees, an oak looked like it had eyes, a nose and a mouth. I used to talk to the tree. It made my childhood memories very magical as everything seemed to be animate in those days

Ellen

When I was younger I spent all my time playing with my sister. She was 2 years older than me, so she started school while I was left at home. So, I made up an imaginary friend. Her name was Julie and she was a vampire. At the time Beetlejuice was my favorite movie, so I decided that Julie could only be reached if you drew a door in the dirt with a stick and knocked on it three times. As my sister began coming home with stories from school I started to get jealous so I made up my own school. After my sister told her stories I told all about my school (which Julie went to also). In my school I had 3 teachers, a mean one, a nice one and a funny one. I even made up classmates giving each of them a different personality. I would adlib stories about them and my sister would always crack up. I should have been a writer.

Midget

This is one i haven't and wont grow out of... I still believe my childhood "imaginary friend" (an old man, in overalls and bowler hat) was actually the spirit of my great grandfather. ( I was describing him to my father and he told me thats exactly what my great-grampa looked like.)

Anon

I used to believe in my imaginary friend dooodle.
Doodle was a stickperson and was always smiling.

Samantha