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Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (05:44)
by Snuggletummy
I'm being dead serious about this topic. For me, and you'll all laugh, when I was little I did have one, and it was Sailor Moon.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (05:51)
by Pheidippides
Don't feel bad; mine was a Pokemon. -_-

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (09:07)
by SkyPanda
Er no. But I did have a very active imagination

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (13:33)
by Pixon
Well, I would pretend that my feet were real people, and the right foot would occasionally attack the left foot.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (16:58)
by unoriginal name
After the first family cat died, I would pretend that he was traveling all around the country. Like, I'd get out atlases and draw a line with my finger over the roads to show my parents where he was going. Apparently he could drive.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (17:12)
by T3chno
xVxSupremeMastarxVx wrote:After the first family cat died, I would pretend that he was traveling all around the country. Like, I'd get out atlases and draw a line with my finger over the roads to show my parents where he was going. Apparently he could drive.
That's cute.



I, sadly, did not have one. I was too busy playing my -new- SNES and GameBoy Pocket. :D

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (19:07)
by t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư
>_>
Yeah. Robin Hood.
Well... Robin Hood minus all ideology and with extra emphasis on shooting shit up with a compound bow.
Mostly he'd hop along the cars alongside mine on roadtrips, or ride on the roof of mine if there were none around. Y'know, while shooting things.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (20:00)
by EdoI
Seeing all the kids with imaginary friends in American movies I'd say it's very common.
However, I've never had one, nor do I know some kid that did.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (20:10)
by sheganican
I was Buzz Lightyear one time. I still have the scar on my forhead to prove it.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (20:12)
by T3chno
EdoI wrote:Seeing all the kids with imaginary friends in American movies I'd say it's very common.
So this is how people in other countries learn about America.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (20:13)
by  yahoozy
I didn't have an imaginary friend, but I would tie a lanyard around my head, put on a cape, go outside, and whack at trees that were actually shadow demons from another dimension with a discarded curtain rod.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (20:24)
by yungerkid
I still do have an imaginary friend of a sort. I have changed the physical model I use for it over the years, but essentially it's just a person that I imagine is accompanying me wherever I go. I talk to it, and it talks to me, and we discuss things.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (21:09)
by otters~1
Mine was closer to yk's, I guess. It varied according to whatever I was into at the time.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (21:57)
by Ampersand
No. I'm *NORMAL*.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.06.30 (22:05)
by otters~1
Ampersand wrote:No. I'm *NORMAL*.
Psh. You haven't really lived, you mean. Get out of denial, fuel your imagination, and spend some entertaining minutes with penguins.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (02:40)
by Ngaged
I actually did not have an imaginary friend. I was a creative child too...but even so, I didn't find the need for an imaginary friend. I did, however, enact imaginary role-plays with my real friends, using sticks as swords and whatnot. XD

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (04:20)
by Rose
Nah, I never had one. I never really needed one, I guess; when I was young, I had tons of friends, and as I grew older, I became more solitary and introverted so I didn't want to talk even with an imaginary friend XD

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (06:06)
by squibbles
I dunno...I had people to converse with who didn't exist, but the never had a body, or form. Actually, a couple of them still show up every now and then for a chat. That's kinda weird now that I think about it. I talk to voices in my head. O_O

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (07:59)
by Ampersand
flagmyidol wrote:
Ampersand wrote:No. I'm *NORMAL*.
Psh. You haven't really lived, you mean. Get out of denial, fuel your imagination, and spend some entertaining minutes with penguins.
I don't need imagination, I have *BEER* and *FRIENDS*.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (08:14)
by McP
no im not an idiot

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (16:56)
by DW40
squibbles wrote:I dunno...I had people to converse with who didn't exist, but the never had a body, or form. Actually, a couple of them still show up every now and then for a chat. That's kinda weird now that I think about it. I talk to voices in my head. O_O
Huh. Me too.

As a child I had 100 invincible, intelligent mice, 2 Golden Eagles and some other assorted invernerable animals.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (18:38)
by Donfuy
I did have for some moments. For those when I didn't have nothing to do, like when I was at the toilet and there was no magazines. It was a tiny little animal, probably a mouse. Probably.



It didn't have a name.


And I still have that "conscience voice" that sometimes I talk to (basically, it's talking myself).
To me, that's the best concept of god I can imagine (explained in another way: if there's a god, that's god to me).

Yeah, weird.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.01 (19:00)
by Fraxtil
My imaginary friend was a superhero. Oddly, today I have absolutely no fascination with superheroes.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.02 (00:31)
by otters~1
Ampersand wrote:
flagmyidol wrote:
Ampersand wrote:No. I'm *NORMAL*.
Psh. You haven't really lived, you mean. Get out of denial, fuel your imagination, and spend some entertaining minutes with penguins.
I don't need imagination, I have *BEER* and *FRIENDS*.
And I have *PENGUINS*.

EDIT: Interesting thought, Donfuy.

Re: Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

Posted: 2009.07.02 (04:33)
by capt_weasle
Yes, but not really a "friend," but more of a character. Sort of like an ongoing movie that was played out around me, via imagination. He would go around on sort of a flying surfboard thing and collect these little gem-type deals that he put in a necklace. Each one gave him a different power to defeat whoever needed to be defeated. There was a whole storyline to it, with origins, family, betrayal, redemption, and a whole lot of people around me looking at that strange little boy making all of the "wooshing" noises. 'Twas epic.