[MrSmashem]

Now this is weird but I've never actually considered the possibility that some kids might think their imaginary friends are real. I mean, I've seen it on tv and such but I've always figured everyone knew they didn't really exist but still chose to play with them because it was fun. I always knew it was just pretend and I figured everyone else did too.

If I ever "played" with an imaginary "friend", I did so when I was alone. I'd never run up to my parents and go "mom, dad, look this is my friend." -points to imaginary person-. I thought those kind of things only happened in movies or books.

Nope, saw it happen a few times in elementary school. Some kids were just convinced they actually had a friend that only they could see...and he/she/it was real. Maybe pretending their friend was real was just part of their game and I was pooping on their parade by saying no one was there, so to keep it going they had to keep playing along...idk. I just sort of ignored them after they tried to convince me their friend was actually there.

I even saw some parents support their kids playing with their , "real" imaginary friend...weird stuff.

On a side note, it was pretty rare, only a few kids were like that and most of them grew out of it....just like Santa/Easter Bunny etc.

[sparkles]

Nope. I wanted my physical friends around constantly though. At least before I had to deal with traumatic loss that altered my personality for a while.

I didn't really like playing with toys. I liked playing games with friends. My folks bought me this fancy barbie dream house and it only got used if a friend came over who wanted to use it. I liked to play active games outside, or pretend games with friends.

[Lieutenant_Chocobo]

I had a BUNCH of imaginary friends when I was a kid... I would bring them if we had show and tell day at school too. :3

[Kayness]

When I was 10-12 I have this friend called Jonathan. He disappeared very quickly, though, because I told my mum about him and my mum thought that he's my boyfriend, and at that age I wouldn't be caught dead fancying a boy!

I still have a few, now....and I'm already pushing my mid-20's ;). I wouldn't consider them 'imaginary', though, because they came to visit me in my dreams. So, just because they don't exist in the tangible world doesn't mean they're imaginary! One of them is Six Fingered Albino Cyclops. She's basically a little girl with multiple birth defects (albinism, polydactyly, cyclopia). I met her when I was 18. She was hiding in a subway, running away from horrible people who were trying to lynch her. Then something in my mind told me that she's actually me, a personification of this part of me that I keep hidden beneath layers of normalcy until I forgot existed.

There are also a pair of brother and sister rabbits called C and Mix. Also they came to me in my dreams. They were both terribly young to be without parents - C, the older sister, was barely equivalent to a 6-7 years old child and Mix was a baby still wearing diapers. At first C was very hostile to me while hiding Mix behind her because she thought I was one of those 'bad' humans who would harm them, but eventually I managed to convince and reassure her that I want to be their friend. Only then did I get a close enough look at Mix to see that he has multiple deep laceration scars on the right side of his face. C bears this burden of guilt on her little shoulders because she feels like she's failed to protect her brother. According to C, he's already started to speak but had regressed when the attack happened, and he's actually very bright beyond his years.

[cottoncandy468]

I was told that I had one named no name when I was really little, none other than that but my friends and I would create role playing games. I feel like a kid again when my preteen niece thinks of that kind of stuff, she usually wants to be Indians finding cool stuff by listening to the earth or we'll pretend we're fashion show girls that got stranded on an island and we're hiding from the pirates or something random like that.

[Leon_Kennedy88]

no, but I talk to myself on a daily basis.

[Zugzwang]

I had two.. But one of them wasn't really as a kid :l

I remember when I was about 7 years old or so, I sat at a school friends birthday and stared out of the window, wondering how cool it would be if there was a huge Triceratops standing out there in their back yard.. (I was a huge fan of dinosaurs back then.. So was my friend, and I kinda still like them for the nostalgia)
I met the dinosaur once or twice again later when I remembered I had him in my imagination. But he didn't really do or say anything. He just stood there, where I parked my bike before taking the bus.

Then I made up a fox, I named Itack or something (Annoyingly bad name, since it in danish sounds an awful lot like an ironic thanks, like "Gee, thanks..."). I was bored, but I was also about 20 years old :l
But I did make a lot of characters to draw when I was a kid, but this character has always stayed "invisible". Not sure why I thought I needed him, but he is a very wise intellectual fox, with dark red fur. He's a nice companion, and always has the right things to say.
I've only met him 2-3 times...

[STU KATZ]

Not as a kid, but when I was a teenager I had alot of imaginary girlfriends.

[walking tourist]

I had hordes of imaginary friends. I had one that lived in a mirror. In fact, it was my mirror image. Then there was a whole bunch that lived in a tree.
The tree was chopped down when I was ten.
A year later, we moved away.
I never had any more imaginary friends.
I still miss them.

[Le9acyMuse]

Hm, nuh-uh. No imaginary friends. I also felt like it was just a 'game' to kids who believed it, but idk.

I had stuffed animals from kindergarten to maybe age 15. I had them 'act' in these anthropomorphic animal movies I created. I'm embarrassed to say, but I drew from Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and even Ed, Edd and Eddy. I threw 'em away in an attempt to grow up. I miss them. *sighs*

Within the past year, I developed inspirational embodiments. Muses. 4 of them. They more kept me from emotional breakdowns than inspiring me though. Probably the closest I came to imaginary friends. Creepy?