I'm starting to lose the imaginary friends too.

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I'm not sure if I can post this here, or what responses I will get, but I need to get it out into words.

I don't have a very active social life (well, that's hardly going to be a surprise). In fact, most of my friends tend to be spread out over a wide area of the country and in other countries, because my social existence tends to be bounded by gaming conventions - and that's it.
It then becomes very easy for me to slip out of touch with people, because they all have proper lives and see people and go out. I'm perpetually surprised that they stay friends with me, but I'm grateful for it. However...the intervals between them getting in contact are getting wider and wider. I'm losing them, and whenever I call, 'it's a bad time' or they're busy.
My friends also exist in my dreams, along with several other non-existent people. I am blessed/cursed with extremely vivid, detailed dreams which I generally remember. Recently, I've had lots of 'mundane' dreams where they contain nothing truly fantastical, just social situations where I'm participating and enjoying myself - and then everyone starts drifting off and ignoring me, as if I'm invisible. Then when I next start to dream, those people still ignore me.

The irony is that when I want to be invisible, I really try hard to wish myself out of existence. Now that I am becoming invisible, I still have moments when I want to have friends, affection and love.
I don't know how to have relationships, and nobody has the time to do all the work.

There's a woman in my dreams I occassionally "work" with. She's sort of like a placeholder for a real person that I don't know about yet.

I dunno whether this is any consolation, but I watched a stand-up show by Dylan Moran recently, and he said the most profoundly funny thing, that religion is really carrying on the tradition of imaginary friends. (Dylan Moran plays the evil bookshop owner Bernard Black in "Black Books")