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I've got one shy girl friend, one bully whom I keep defeating everytime, and a secret institution with almost 20 identifiable members in my imaginary character arsenal.
you should start writing the best stories, who knows, it might make a book in the end
Actually I tried to. But writing it down is harder than imagining it. Thoughts run faster than words.
Yeah writing really is a job. But you can cut down the work. Like start to write down feelings, key places and moments. and then you end up with a short story in bulletpoints. Then you cut it down into chapters. By the time you get all of this you have pretty much have all your story in your head and you just need to write it down using your bulletpoints. This takes time obviously, you must enjoy the process and not do it only for the money
Edit: Sorry for the wall of text I'm on mobile
Whoa.Tell me you ain't some English professor or something!!
Real enough that it’s been 13 years and I still make up scenarios about them in my head every night in order to fall asleep
How does that work though? I mean, I do that too, but why do our brains just go "ok and now sleep"
Same
Yeah same
I do the thing where when I cant sleep I lie still as if there's a ghost or something around and because I am lieing so still so as to not get caught I end up sleeping. That sounds foolish though lol.
I've got way too many imaginary friends throughout the years and they keep changing. Overtime, they get replaced with new ones too. Most of the time, they feel like a vague memory, so I guess they sort of feel real at the same time not real. I don't know if these are strange thoughts to have as an adult. Maybe I daydream too much or I'm just lonely.
Same same same my friend.
An imaginary girlfriend who I love deeply, that I have even said my imaginary stories of her and me to my friends.. And those beautiful stories about time we spent together.. I felt it very deep that I can't agree she was imaginary! 😞
I used to have imaginary friend and I would always think of him for maybe 6 years. And now I'm thinking of a boyfriend and I would imagine that we're having a hard time and sometimea I cried like a baby because I would imagine him saying bad things and traumatic stuff.
called him dad :p
I had a group of imaginary friends that all happened to be Peter Pan but in various colors? There was Purple Peter, Orange Peter, Black Peter, etc. My mom used to bring them up to boyfriends when I was in my 20’s.
Beep. Boop. I'm a robot. Here's a copy of
Peter Pan
Was I a good bot? | info | More Books
No
I assume they’re usually when your very young,so hard to remember
They're still here.. all of them and its been years
I was quite lonely for a while when I was around 11/12. I was also big into X-Files. As a result, I would imagine Mulder and Scully were my partners, and I was undercover at school looking for some weird crap. I went through a period of writing notes to myself backwards like a code that were ‘from them’.
I can’t remember how long this lasted but I think around a year.
I think I just really wanted to be part of something and be that close to someone.
I lost my best imaginary friend in my memory. His name is Leoni. Has anybody heard/seen of him? I am looking for him again. He is quite confident.
So real, he my husband now.
When I was a kid I wasn't rly allowed to hang out with my friends, so I would just imagine they were with me all the time. I'd just go about my daily life and talk to them in my head as if they were following me around. The lines often got blurred in my head between the real version of the person and the imaginary one.
As real as my imagination can make it. I have a wide variety of imaginary friends. I see them all the time. I'm 45 so I hope it's not a bad thing.
Ahahah y'all think you have "real" friends.. cute..
Yea when I'm watching something like TV or something I'm pretend I'm talking to some random guy maybe like peter Parker or somebody else and ill say something like bro WTF did that just happen no way bro
I've had imaginary friends my whole life, still do. More than I can count. Been making up stories since I was young.
I have 3 imaginary friends. One is a monkey, one is a bat, and one is a tiger. Each of them can turn into humans. The bat and tiger are girls while the monkey in a man. I'm not very creative so I just imagine us in regular situations but I did have a fling there with the Cikes(the bat) for a while. Fredrick(the monkey) and Tina(the tiger) have been dating for years. My favorite situation that we have been in was when Cikes and I went to her house and I met her parents (this is when we were together) her father told me that if I hurt her he would drink all my blood, bring me back to life then kill me again. So shaken up I called Fredrick and Tina and asked them if I could come over(seeing that they all live in my head it was a yes) so about an hour later I found my self at Fredrick and Tina's I took a shower with Cikes(I surprisingly got everything right except the lower parts that I just turned horizontal) we made out for a bit and then we fell asleep. Then I woke up out of my day dream and got off the school bus went inside and had a snack.
Since I was young I've been biking a lot and I usually have conversations with guys from books I've read
Yes
Every Power Rangers characters when I was in my early teens. I used think i was in team and part with them.. It was preety real to me.
Honestly can't believe no one has mentioned r/tulpas yet....
I had Goofy as my imaginary friend! I also had a plushie of him. And I also had two dreams/nightmares involving him so I got scared of the doll, but I got over it now.
So, so very many. I've hooked up with so many, I slutshame myself. I've had so many friends with odious habits, I always told Hannibal I am vegiterian. I've cried over so many tragidies, watched beloved friends come and go and been thrilled when I found them again somewhere else.
I had imaginary friends for years cus most friends were jerks wanting to hurt me or use me for money, while the actual true friends would leave, so I kept getting more when loneliness and social anxiety kicked in
Well not as a friend but as a imaginary character l hope there are some of you who remember slendytubbies well remember that one scene which they show dipsy body alongside his head and near the game we fight dipsy body so then what happened to his head well l imagine his head is still at the tubby house and after a few days two scientist teletubby found him and decided to bring him to their lab originally it was two of my imaginary characters who travelled dimension and stumble over the house but its pretty much gonna be complicated so l chose two scientist Teletubby anyway back to the lab they check and think they could build him a robot body with a artificial heart when lala was dead she was brought to life but mutated all they have to do to dispy is made a robot body give it a little frankstein when he would be brought back to life and the two scientist would wanted to change his identity instead of dipsy he would be called "Dip Bot"
L hope you like let me know about yours peace
Idk if it counts but i think of EddsWorld characters like Tom and Tord as my imaginary friends
Like if i talk with myself when im alone then i like thinking that they are chatting with me, and before bed, i like thinking that either Tord or Tom sing for me because i like listening to some calming songs and so on.
I think i have had this issue (?) Like for 4 years now?
If it doesn't count then it's alright
I was surprised there was a reddit post about this topic. Yes, I have a couple. They’re all characters from different songs. Sometimes, my imaginary friends can seem real to the point where I zone out and get shocked when someone in real life gives me a heads up. Sorry if this sounds strange to any person reading this.