Do you still have imaginary friends?

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I've had imaginary friends since I was 5. Since more or less all of my special interests have been movies and TV shows, I just take my favorite characters from those and "adopt" them as my imaginary friends (I've never been good at creating original characters). In my imaginary world, all of my imaginary friends live together with me in a spacious two-story cabin in a meadow near the forest.

I talk to my imaginary friends every night when my family members are asleep. I also mimic their voices and have them "respond" to me so I can fool myself into thinking I'm having a two-sided conversation with them.

I prefer having imaginary friends over real friends because real friends are very stressful on me and I have had my trust broken in the past. Even though my imaginary friends can't really "love" me like real people can, they can't hurt me or leave me like real people can either, so that's why I keep them. One doctor that I went to even suggested that having an active imagination actually saved me from becoming more emotionally damaged by my life's circumstances than I would have been otherwise.

And yes, I do date my own imaginary friends, though I have only started doing this recently. I've been in love with Alice Kingsleigh from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland since the opening day of the movie (which is when I first saw it). I'm "engaged" to her, though we have yet to set a date for our "wedding".

I've had imaginary friends in my imaginary worlds.

Daydreaming helps me a lot with talking/working things out. Even imagining a different perspective helps create some kind of contrast to bring ideas I would have otherwise missed to the fore.

OMG! SAME! I'm nearly 17 and I still sleep with mine XD

Some might say that much religious practice
has many of the hallmarks of imaginary
friends.

For example, many talk to Jesus like he is a
teddy bear. Some say that a mature prayer
life Is all about abandoning the teddy bear
and learning to sit in the unknowing.

Personally, I think if something makes you happy
keep doing what yr doing........life is too short

Yes, I have had imaginary friends since high school. The only problem is that they seem to isolate me from my family and non-imaginary friends. I really want to kick them to the curb but it's not so easy to do that.

I still have the imaginary friend I created when I was twelve. His name is Bob (not terribly inventive, but when I came up with him, I didn't expect him to stick around for the next nine years, heck, I was surprised when I woke up the next day and found him still asleep in my bed). He and I go literally everywhere together, and it feels incredibly strange when we're apart, even for a moment. I open my mouth to talk to him, only to remember he's not there, and it feels like the thoughts are trapped inside my head, banging to get out until he gets back from whatever he's doing and I can tell him what I'm thinking. I don't think he will ever leave, though I'm pretty sure my mother thinks he left a long time ago. I have no doubt people in public think I'm crazy as I walk down the street muttering to "myself" when in fact I'm conversing with Bob. Before him, I only had experience with imaginary pets; a horse named Star and an extremely mischievous monkey named George (I was super un-creative with my names when I was a kid), so the first day Bob showed up, I spent the entire day pulling him along by the hand and talking to him as if he were a dog. It was at the end of the day that it occurred to me that friends treat each other like equals, not pets (fortunately I already knew that about my real friends!) and adjusted my tone accordingly. My favourite game to play with him is superheroes (yes I still play imaginary games, shut up and don't look at the age on my profile!) I'm Aspie Avenger, and he's my sidekick, NT, and together we fight crime from our secret lair *cough basement*. We once saved the world from our evil arch nemesis, Dark Arrow, by flying his invisible space ship into orbit and preventing him from extinguishing the sun with his gigantic cathode ray (he was going to depolarize the hydrogen and helium ions in the sun... don't even know if that's possible, but he was going to try it anyway). You're welcome humanity. Bob and I have had our fights over the years, but we've always made up, and grown up together (his birthday, interestingly enough, is the same day as mine... what a coincidence!) Many real friends have come and gone, but he and I will probably be sitting in our rocking chairs on the rickety old porch of some dilapidated house yelling at the neighbourhood kids when we're ninety.

Both of these. I switch out which animals I sleep with on a nightly basis, and am always worried if I forget whose turn it is that the one I skip over will have their feelings hurt. I always wonder what they get up to while I'm away. Trying to remind myself that they're not real just feels odd and unnatural, but it's a little burdensome, feeling guilty for ignoring or dropping a non-living object and being unable to shake the feeling that they're very much alive and aware of your presence.

No. It would certainly help me out, though.

Never had an imaginary friend. I don't think I've heard about them until my first son got one when he's 4. According to him his imaginary friend looked just like him, but carried an orange backpack. He stopped talking about the friend once he got a couple of real friends. Though he's never been lonely, as his brother is close in age and they are inseparable best friends. I suspect that is was a trendy thing to do in preschool back then or something. This son has always been outgoing and keen about trendy stuff.

I slept with my teddy bear until the day I got married. I have a tiny stuffed animal who sits on my night table now and sometimes I still hold him in my hand when I am asleep next to my husband.

I have imaginary friends too. They are farm animals actually. They bike and ski with me and have adventures with me. I talk to them a lot and they play with me.

ive had the same ones since late 2009

Emily (same name just different character)
Thunder
Despair
Mystery
Suzie
and Mephiles

all sonic fan characters and also my friends

I do daydream, but I admit to myself it is fantasy, not real - I don't think of anything that exists there as anything other than planning how to speak to people in real life, sort of rehearsal.

I had imaginary friends as a child but dropped such things at about 8 in favor of reading and study.

It's like that for me, too- I sort of "rotate" the plushies I sleep with too, and I always sleep with a bunch at a time because I don't want all my favorites to feel left out, and I also just think a lot of plushies makes the bed more cozy.

I don't have imaginary friends. I don't judge people that do.

Me too. :3