Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
I was just thinking back to childhood, and wondering if any of you had imaginary playmates when you were little. I didn't, somehow I just didn't have the imagination to do it, and it just seemed silly, talking to people sighted people couldn't see, and we couldn't hear. I'm my very best friend in the world, but even I'm no good at having a conversation with myself, lol. Any thoughts?
wonderwoman
lol when I was like three I had a friend, but I just kinda stopped when I was four.
Lol, know what you mean Alison, it's no fun talking to someone who can't talk back because of invisibility, heehee.
wonderwoman
I never had one, but I love hearing stories about people who did! I'm surprised I didn't have one, because I loved to talk, and still do, whether people woudl listen and answer or not! Lol! SO I'm surprised I didn't have one, just to have someone to talk to!~ Lol! Alison, do you remember anything about yours? Lol? Any stories? Caitlin
I didn't actually used to have specific immaginary friends, but I did used to record a lot and would often pretend I was addressing people. Like I would pretend to be a teacher and would explain stuff and even make up worksheets to fill in, using the formats from my speling books. Also, when I would play by myself, I would build a neighborhood with Waffles )which are simple flat construction shapes that could fit to each other to make a tiny town or whatever), and although I would make up my own town, I would either use the names the monitos (action figures) already had, or I would change their names to someone I'd read about in a story. Although I had some immagination, I don't think I had that much because I usually just used toys for what they were made for unless I could make it be used as something else. But I don't remember pretending something was totally something else. OK, I know I'm off topic, but I wanted to share that anyway. *smiles*
Leilani
Oh, but I did have my brothers and older sister and some neighbors to play with, so of course, I did pretend to be other people when they did. *smiles*
Leilani
I recorded a lot and pretended to address people too Tinkerbell. Hehehe. Caitlin
yeah one time I pushed my "friend" on a swing and hit someone in the face lol! and the other time i pretended to punch her heehee
Hahahahahha Alison!!! That's hilariously funny about the swing. And punching here ehheeh. Anymore stories?
Haha. Well, now thinking back to it, I did have several imaginary playmates. I was always bored because I had never been able to really tollerate playing with dolls, and apparently that's what everyone my age wanted to do... So.. I invented many little friends that would keep me company and would play fun games with me. grins embarrassedly
I ... hated ... dolls ... too!!! Heheheh. I tried to play with them because my sis did but if I wasn't playing with ehr and we weren't making them all die in the end of our games, I didn't liek them. Heh. Caitlin
lol caitcait! well no more funny ones, PK was her name for some odd reason i don't know why i named her that but I did. anyway yeah my friend and i were at our little group thingie, they had little army guys and priests and little diny dude thingies, and we put them in cages and burried them in the sand heehee.
I always thought it was funny like on tv, a child would have an imaginary friend, and they would say the wanted to give some cookies or food to their imaginary friend, and their parents went along with it, and gave them the food, for the child, the real one I mean, and the imaginary one. I wonder what happened to the extra food? lol.
Anyway, I never cared for dolls either, except talking ones. I had a chatty kathy doll once. You put a record in it, pulled astring, and it would say a few things like, my name is chatty Kathy, I love you, and a few other things. And Lelani, don't worry about getting off topic in here, the topic police aren't suppose to be after us in here. I hope there are some girl geeks in here, cause looks like this is going to be my geek board, cinema 31 board, booknook board all wrapped in to one. I think with my subjects on old time radio, a little bit of music, and whatnot, we might be able to keep this board going.
wonderwoman
I never had an imaginary friend per say. My stuffed animals and dolls were my friends when I was bored or lonely and had no one real too play with.
Hi Bug, well, I never cared for dolls or stuffed animals, I liked toys that would do things, make sounds. I had a farmer says toy once, and it had different sounds, like a cow, a dog, cat etc. Then there was the chatty Kathy doll. I just never had the imagination to bring toys to life in my mind.
wonderwoman
Hi All. I used to tell myself stories when I was alone, and I would get all into it ahaha. But that's kinda random. But it seemed to kind of fit in to the "wha did you do when you were little an had no one to play with?" question. Caitlin
Well, all actsof randomness are allowed here. Well, my mom use to get me story records, and I listened to them. But you're lucky Caitlin, you like to talk even when there's no one to talk back to you, I have to have someone answer me.
wonderwoman
Oh man. I talk in my sleep, to the wall, I used to talk to my tape recorder for hours, tell stories to it lol! I would be recording obviously, lol! It was sooo funny! HHehehe. Caitlin
LOL, I used to have an imaginary friend named Katie. She was the bomb, LOLLOLLOLLOL.
lol, well, if I could've invented an imaginary friend, that would've been the closest I could get to someone just like me, lol. I use to talk in to the tape recorder when I was little, and liked to hear my self talking back, but I just couldn't get in to the imaginary friend thing. I suppose it posed a problem, when some kids were so in to it, that they'd tell their parents to give some milk and cookies to their friend, haha.
wonderwoman
Well, i used to have an imaginary friend who's name was Scarfy...yeah, its weird...i used to pretend that i was getting married to him and stuff, and I used to make him a bad character (E.g since I was little, he did the things i was forbidden to do: mainly, he watched R-rated movies and rode his bike where he wasn't supposed to...lol.) Anyways, I even wrote this story about him when I was like 7 and participating in a writing workshop for little kids, and it won first prize in the competition! It was called, "Scarfy and the Scorpions" and basically it was about Scarfy going for a ride on his bike where he wasn't supposed to (after getting grounded for doing a number of things) and when he fell down this hill and his mom tried to save him and she got bit by a scorpion and stuff...It was actually pretty screwed up...And then, my aunt thought I was a devil worshipper for having him as an imaginary friend, that he was Satan talking to me...So she sat on me and tried to perform an excorscism...So that was the end of Scarfy...Well, my Jaws demo is running out so I gotta go.
Ok Niblit, thanks for sharing your story with us. I'll let you go now so you can restart jaws.
wonderwoman
Hehehehhee tha'ts so funny NibNib, and MelMel too! Lol! Melmel do you have any memories of you friend? And Nib ahahaha about the writnig workshop and winning, the story sounds clever to me really! And what a cute name ... awawa. See i heard about kids having imaginary friends and so I sort of imagined i had an imaginary friend, because I thought it would be fun to hav one, but I never got that into it. ALso, since lots of my friendds did, I would bring my dolls and thigns to the table and pretend to feed them. Heheh.
Yes, I have many memories. I would sit on the floor in my room, legs spread apart and rolling a ball back and forth. "OK, Katie, catch!" I'd say. "Aw, nice try, but you missed. Then, one time when I was older (like third or fourth grade), I was really bored, so I decided to bring her back. By then we had acquired a swing set, so I put her on the swing and pushed her. LMAO!
When I was little, the first imaginary playmates I had were ones my parents actually helped imagine with me. Mom named them Tom, Dick, and Harry, and when I heard Harry, I thought it was h a i r y like a hairy monster, so Tom was a regular guy in a red suit, Dick was a regular guy in a yellow suit, and Harry was a big blue monster, and I used to pretend I'd sit in his hand like how King Kong snatched up that girl in the movies. Then, a couple years later, it was that "eat your vegetables" phase of growing up and I imagined there was a little girl named Annabella who lived in my stomach and I got myself to eat carrots by saying Annabella's mommy wanted her to eat carrots too. Then, I mostly imagined characters from TV. Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles taught me ancient Japanese philosophy, I could sing songs and call the Sorceress from Masters of the Universe, etc. Then, everyone in fourth and fifth grade formed into cliques and no one would let me in, so I had my own clique of imaginary trendy girlfriends. As I grew a little older, half of those imaginary cliquey friends turned into friends I'd help because they had severe disabilities, like a couple in a wheelchair and one with a portable ventilator. Then, I went back to the TV heroes phase and imagined I was in league with the X-Men, and after that, I discovered loud rock music and imagined I hung out with Rush and Metallica and it even carried through to Blind Guardian before I killed most of them off. Now, sometimes if I'm really bored and really alone in my own home, I imagine Metallica's late bassist Cliff Burton and also imagine I'm talking to my late brother's spirit.
Awwawawaw Melmel, the swing is so cute! And Melodica hehehe Arabella and Harry made me chuckle too awawaw! Wish I had more memories!
Awwawawaw Melmel, the swing is so cute! And Melodica hehehe Arabella and Harry made me chuckle too awawaw! Wish I had more memories!
I mean .. I wish I had had an imaginary friend. Sobs heh!
Wow, Melodica, you had a lot of imaginary friends, lol, and you too songwriter. I always thought it was amazing how other kids had such imaginations, they could hear, or imagine they heard voices talking back to them, where as I couldn't make myself hear anything. Sometimes mom would talk for one of the dolls, and she was good at making them come to life, but as soon as she stopped talking for them and left the room, they became lifeless again. If I had had an imaginary friend, it would've probably been someone like me, my imaginary twin, hahaha.
wonderwoman
LOL, Mel. At least you didn't hit someone in the face when you were pushing your imaginary friend on the swing, and then feel embarrassed for a week afterword! Hahahaha!
I HATE hearing myself talk from a tape recorder/wav file on the computer, I think I sound really stupid. LOL.
Oh my god. To be honest I had them till I was 16. Not only playmates, in my teens there was even a time where I was thinking of - imaginary lovers. Lol. Laugh at me now but it's true. That is my past. Because I w as lonely.
oh my. Well anyway, I'd want an imaginary friend who'd answer me back, lol, guess that's why I never had one.
wonderwoman
Lol! Yeah, I even named them. I think one was named Sophie, and another was maira. I stopped it at eleven. I only had them in my head. I imagined they helped me out on homework assignments, talked to me, comforted me, and all that cool stuff. I was popular at one time, but I still had them. When I went to bed I'd have friendly ghosts, who wrote in diaries all day. I imagined my house was a ghost host site. There was even a nurse and a medical doctor. Lol!
No, I didn't have an imaginary playmate. just dolls. lol
I heard on the radio a while ago that a boy had what his mum thought was an imaginery friend, who actually turned out to be a spiret who had lived in the house a long while before that family. Well, the mum wouldn't believe the boy that he was talking to an actual person and apparently she was taking him up to his room one evening and when he had gone in the room, she was pushed down the stairs by this ... she didn't know what it was at the time, but then got someone to go round to the house who found out it was the spiret of this young person called Harry.
My imaginary friend was a little girl ghost named Sarah Collins, a character from the 60s soap Dark Shadows. Anyone remember it, or remember Sarah? (She is mainly an annoyance to adult fans. LOL) The idea of her intrigued me so much, I had to adopt her for myself, though I never had any other imaginary friends. On the show, Sarah would appear from time to time and play with the only child of the family.
Yeah, I did the tape recording thing too, but I don't count that as imaginary friends, but rather a sort of alternative to written stories.
I don't remember having any imaginery friends myself, but people say I used to have.
I did it all in my head, I never talked to them out loud really. I had a couple hundred.... I remember I named one sophy.
I had an imaginary friend named Amy. I remember to this day. She lived on a cloud, according to my child mind, so if anyone ever asked me who I was talking to, I would just say it was her, but that she went back to her cloud, and that's why nobody could see her. Hahaha. When she was apparently on her cloud, I just talked in my head, and she was always with me whenever I got sent to my room for something I had done wrong. Lol.
I had an imaginary friend named Penelope. I don't remember much about her except that we used to play and have conversations. I don't think I ever tried to feed her or anything but I did talk to her a lot. I also believed that I had a family of goats living in my stomach which caused me to be hungry all the time. If I asked for a snack or extra food and my Mom gave me a hard time about it, I would tell her it was for the goats. There was also a never ending struggle between good and evil going on in my bedroom between my large assortment of Star Wars action figures, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Hot Wheels and Legos. My toy cars all had different personalities and were always characters in my stories. From what I can recall, there were a pack of cars and action figures that were all bad guys who used to fight a lot with my legos and a few of my favorite cars and action figures who wer the good guys. I had a couple of barbies that my Mom gave me in hopes of getting me to be more girly but I never liked them so they were always aligned with the bad guys and got blown up a lot. I built various shelters and base camps for the 2 sides out of enpty shoe boxes. The good guys had 2 camps, 1 on my bed and one on the top shelf of the hutch over my desk. I made a pulley type thing out of yarn and a small box that allowed the good guys to safely travel across the room between the 2 camps. The bad guys were based on the floor and most of the fighting happened there. Of course, as to be expected in any massive struggle between good and evil, there were injuries. I used to wrap my action figures' arms and legs with toilet paper and scotch tape like a cast until I decided they were healed. I had a lot of stuffed animals that ended up in toilet paper casts and bandages as well due to collateral damage. I wasted a lot of toilet paper as a kid but fortunately my parents were cool about it. I've always wondered if this kind of stuff is more common with only children. I I am an only child so I spent a lot of time playing by myself a lot as a kid. What about the rest of you with imaginary friends? Are any of you only children?
I have a younger sister, but we didn't get along too well until just a few years ago. Lol. I also didn't feed my imaginary friend. She got all the food she needed on her cloud. Lol.
i did and still do, it's gone from fave chars from a few tv shows, to now chars from my stories, and a few stuffed animals i have. yes i'm odd, but i'm alone durring the day, mom is at work, and i can't really get out so... i do odd things... i've always had an odd imagination, but that's not really a bad thing now is it...
The ability to comfortably have and admit a quality that others consider odd is a strength I wish more people had.
That said, I never had one. It might have been fun.
it is. it makes life more interesting
and ocean dream, i agree... with that...
I had an imaginary friend till I was about nine, her name was Lilia Mari Ani Giulina...Lilia for short...I know, I'm an odd person. Was an even more strange child.
Well, I did. Her name was Cindy and she rode a horse, a pure white one. It probably started, well, can't remember how young I was probably until I was 9 or 10, probably because I didn't have many real friends. Kids can be cruel when you're different, especially in a small town.
I had an imaginary friend named Grease who lived behind my mirror for a while when I was little. He pretty much caught the blaim for anything I did wrong. lol He ran away one day and that was the end of that.
Aloha! I used to pretend Ariel from TLM lived with me when I was little. I loved Ariel and thought of her as a mother figure due to the lack of attention I Got from my own mother. I also used to pretend i had two younger sisters named Min and Molly! This was funny considering I had a real best friend who I thought of as a little sister who was the best in the world!
I also used to record stories and act them out on tape as well! In fact, I still act out stories and record them til this day because i want to be a voice over actress. It's still a lot of fun.
But back to when I was little. I had friends growing up, so I really didn't need an imaginary one until I went inside and was all alone ,except for my awesome dog, Lady. That's when i would make up stories about Ariel and pretend she and I, along with Min and Molly went on adventures together!
No, I have a yyounger sister who's 5 years younger. but no, I never feed sophy or anything like that, in fact sometimes I'd pretend I ate imaginary food. She was like my mother or mentor or friend, they all were and they all were older, and I explained them away as they're ghosts, no I didn't really feel them, just imagined they hovered next to me or in my bed. They did my homework with me and sat there with me entertaining me and helping sometime.
My little sister & I had 2 that we made up together. Their names were TT & Archie & they were married & they'd fight just like we did & they had a cat & he was always hiding under the foot stool by our chair & TT was always mad at Archie for eating all the cereal. Lol! Memories...
awwww! how cute, I've never coordinated a imaginary friend, they were all mine!