Do you have an imaginary friend OR..

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No.
As in IRL Land, I am socially impaired in Imagination Land.
I used to have a suit of chainmail and a big sword in my fantasies.

my turn, I have created a few universes and cultures, races, planets, technoledgy, languages, personalities, histories (one of which I had span several thousand years), families, animals but..
my favorite is my imaginary dog

I had a whole slew of imaginary friends up until the age of 12...I would talk to them, play games with them (instead of playing games with my peers, because everything had to be controlled and on my terms) and organize activties for them. I had the wildest imagination back then...a simple thought would take me to the friends' world instantly.

The world was parallell to our world, with the friends living among us. However, some lived in an alternate dimension (called Brockland). Things in my immediate environment turned into landmarks and cities of this world. For example, my driveway was their street, and the pavement on the school playground was their highway.

These then transformed into some characters (a group of 5 teenaged girls who did everything together) that I did not believe in, but would imagine scenarios about them for fun. This group lasted until the age of around 17.

I've created 6 'imaginary' friends when I was 14 yrs old though they weren't completely imaginary they were my plushies. I gave them different names, jobs, character qualities and had tea parties with them because I felt inspired to do so after watching the movie "Alice in Wonderland"

I didn't have a good enough imagination or the conversation skills to sustain an imaginary friend. I played like a lot of autistic children do: alone.

Yes, when i was 12 years old, i was lonely, needed emotional connection, but people around me were cold with me and i imagined friend Sandra, i played with her with my dolls, than played teachers,but that wasn't long time.

No, I never had imaginary friends.

EgyptianCat - To me, an imaginary friend is a character who I really enjoy thinking about; a character who I have pretend conversations with. I pretend that they are always with me, sharing in my happiness and sadness. I pretend that they give me advice and encouragement; though it's actually me giving myself advice and encouragement, so it's just a form of talking to myself. I like to think of having imaginary friends as a "mental version of playing with dolls".

Hope that all makes sense.

Haha, interesting on the comment about having tried to make imaginary friends. It's ironic that we can't even make friends who don't exist. I too have tried to have imaginary friends, I have a fantastic imagination, but I was always to aware of reality for that. Instead, I have deeply detailed fantasies, ever since i was little. I just sit down close my eyes (or not) and just get to this nearly dream-like state, but I'm sitll awake and alert. Most of my "dreams" are usually extensions of books I've read (I love reading : ) ), inserted myself into the plot, and continued that plot or rewritten it. I guess it doesn't sound all that unusual, but it's always been my one freedom right when i lay down to bed or first wake up in the morning. And these plots become long, drawnout, and intricate, I usually carry on with one for several weeks, then abandon it for another, then come back to it in another few weeks. My actual dreams are grey in comparison to my fantastic adventures. I was also crazy for fantasy books when I was little, they make for the best daydreams.

I do the thing with constantly speaking with myself inside my head, often referring to myself as "we", sort of holding conversations.