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I used to have an imaginary friend who was called "Pete" and he liked soda when I was like 4. Pete died, sadly :(
Anyone else?
I had an imaginary friend as a kid. I used to talk to him when I was on the toilet or outside if none of my friends were around.
I still do. When I was a kid, it was a big talking yellow chicken for some reason.
I wanted to have imaginary friends when I was little, but I never managed to conjure up those sort of hallucinations. I thought if I concentrated enough something might materialize.
I did, however, play with stuffed animal doggies, and I would pretend that they were real. Sometimes I would take pictures of my stuffed animals sitting in the grass in my backyard.
Honestly, one of the best things that ever happened to me as a child was when I got my first dog. She was a little, white puppy with a few spots, and she had one ear that went up, and one ear that went down. She was a mutt, and I never knew what kinda dog she was, but my dad said she was some kinda terrier mix. For me having dogs was better than any make believe friends, and better than a lot of real life people too. I didn't get my first cat until I was 14 years old though.
I used to have an imaginary friend named Jen, because at the time I really liked the name Jennifer.
Its fairly common for children to have imaginary friends. Sometimes they turn out to be real friends. What you remember is not always what happened.
I’ve never really had true imaginary friends since I’ve also never really been someone to crave human companionship; I’d become confused why other people had imaginary friends so I’d try to make one myself, but I couldn’t make myself believe in them or figure out what the point was (how to interact with them). I don’t think they count if you came up with them voluntarily and chose their appearance.
The times when I’ve tried my hardest to picture them in the real world were times after my parents yelled at me and I felt like nobody knew how I was affected, so sad baby me would imagine ZIM from Invader ZIM hugging me, I didn’t like hugs but I loved him so greatly, it didn’t help me feel a much better though. I still don’t have a good imagination for visuals.