Make Believe Friends?

[allegrorules]

Did any of you ever have make believe/invisible friends when you were younger?

All the way up to I think about 4th grade I had invisible friends.
I would love to play with my invisible friends. From preschool to 1st grade I had make believe friends named NayNay, GoGo, NayNayGoGo, and Naynaybobo. Then Until about 4th grade I had 3 gnome friends named Smee, Breckbru, and Pugrum. They lived in the pantry and I would spend hours in there playing with them with the door closed. I would play board games with them and all sorts of things. I liked them because I could understand them. I dont recall them having any emotions or anything, they were just there.

 

[Arashi222]

Well I still have friends that are in my head I don't know if you call them make believe or not but you can see alot of them in my dolls which I have posted a few pictures of on here. But I have always had a whole world that was my reality and have had to work really hard to stay in the "real" world. You are not alone. I suppose mine do have emotions but they are all from my head so I understand everything. I have Shadows elves, vampires, Shapeshifters, fairies...you name it I still have a world all my own. You know I find it helps us cope.

 

[Dragon's Tooth]

there is a theory going around that children's imaginary friends are actually them experiencing past lives. They say that children prior to the age of about five are very intuitive and will experience things like this but basically society beats it out of them so to speak. We tell our children they are not real and they start to believe they aren't real.

My mum used to think I was a pilot in a past life because I could draw amazingly accurate birds eye views of just about anywhere. I also have a made passion for flying. That's like a major stim for me.

I can't say I ever had an imaginary friend but the imaginary worlds in my head are a lot more inviting than the real world a lot of the time.