Imaginary friend??

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Oh my gosh I'm not the only one with imaginary friends. Woot! Sorry for being so vehement, I've had to defend myself, and my friends, more than once before. Amazing, I've never met anyone outside of soulbonders who have imaginary friends in my entire life! And not from lack of asking. Could there be a connection between Aspergers and imaginary friends perhaps? Maybe their use as a coping method when being unable to interact normally in society is the case, but it does seem more than that, at least intuitively.

My dreamworld is populated by scores of people (in contrast to the real world). These characters are either based on real people who I know, fictional characters from movies or books, or are totally imaginary. But they are not my friends. The imaginary ones come and go, and usually do not even have names. Their purpose is to listen to what I say.

Hi ShadesOfMe. Just curious: what happened to Theodor?

I've got a dreamworld too, and an imaginary friend who belongs to it. I created them when I was in highschool.
My elder sister had an imaginary friend too, till she was about 10. My parents made no fun of her and they respected her friend. They talked about him, like "how is your friend going today?"

I developed a whole pantheon of imaginary friends based on the characters from the TV series "Star Blazers". Each character represented an emotion expressed by that particular character. For instance, one crew member had a crush on an alien woman with psychokinetic characters. The crewman came to represent "weakness" because he had trouble concentrating on his mission -- lack of focus. The woman came to represent idealized love, the perfect relationship. I traditionally represented myself as the captain of the spaceship in the show (the guy who ordered all the crewmen around).

ACG

I have dream friends, sometimes I've woken up and felt very depressed because I miss them.
My imaginary world is like my home town only with more trees and wildlife and for some reason, Aurora Australis in the sky...

My dreams aren't consistent enough to make friends, sadly. u.u A few recurring characters but they have years of separation between visits, and I rarely recognize them in the dream-state.

I do have an imaginary landscape. (Mindscape?) Some of my friends have a hard time with their sort of half-existence, there and not there, touching the ground, but unable to touch it, hungry but unable to affect real food. For that reason I sometimes retreat with them back to a state of mind where we all have imaginary bodies in an imaginary world, a safe place inside myself where we can all interact on the same level.

For me it.... well it started as a giant, leafless tree on a blasted landscape. Strangely peaceful in a way, as if it were only sleeping not dead. I forget how it happened (wrote it down somewhere...) but my tree did eventually leaf out, and now it's at the edge of a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean, with a grassy plain landwards, one lonely tree contemplating the cliff's edge with nothing for miles around. We meet at the tree.

I (all the me's together) have always had imaginary friends. There was one I talked with when I was alone; he always provided a sort of balance, calming me when I was upset, waking me up when I got too indifferent. And we had intellectual discussions.

There are a few walking around in my head, startling me, making me laugh, etc. They first came from story bits that came into my head (but never finished), or in dreams (they usually had something very important to tell me), or they were just "there" as part of the background of another person. I've been aware that people were related, or had children, without knowing why or how or who.

I also sometimes talk to made-up people because I simply need a sounding-board, but that is a totally different thing.

SHUT THE HELL UP!

sometimes my imaginary friends are the best friends I have. they are exactly as I want them to be and do not do anything unexpected. I like my real friends though, imaginary are just easier and safer (and less confusing)

I learned at a young age to turn my thinking inward to my mind when It was time to go to sleep because if not, I'd hear small sounds until I went insane and I'd never get any sleep. I wouldn't say I have imaginary friends, but I more or less, write stories in my head. I often use a few of the same characters, but the story is always different. I recently noticed that I never write stories about 'normal' characters. I'm not sure I'd know how they're supposed to act, or react to things. That's about as close as I come to imaginary friends.

I also talk to myself, way more than I should. Though I try not to do it aloud. I do most things in my mind.

I have two Imaginary Friends who own an Imaginary Bus. A Driver and a Conductor. The come to my Rescue in certian Dreams that I have, that have to do with my Social conflicts. A Routemaster appears out of nowhere, and my two Friends take me away, as I sit in the top of the Front Deck. Than suddenly, I'm in London.

I have perhaps hundreds of them. But I never consciously speak with them. They are more like just entities lingering in between my conscious and subconscious minds.