Have you ever had an "imaginary friend"?

I think of each and every one of you as my imaginary friends. Except glen. (I'm kidding, of course)

Ron: Yeah. I'm clearly imaginary!

but I have the ability to submerge myself into my own mind in a realm of fantasy such that I am unaware (mostly) of my surroundings..

For some reason I could always find someone who wanted to hang out with me. Can't see why, I'm really unfriendly and unapproachable.

Actually, I never had them as a kid but I have several now. I enjoy their company and try to avoid questioning my own sanity whenever I can. They have been introduced to several of my meat friends, as well, and seem to get along.

Is a "meat friend" when you build a person out of Spam, Kielbasa, and Salami? I've never done that, but it sounds D-lish-us!

I never had an imaginary friend. I did talk to myself. A lot. Sometimes I would pretend I was having a conversation with someone I knew (a real person...only the conversation was imaginary). I would sometimes find that person and try to repeat the conversation, to see if the other person would really say what I imagined he would. Imagination is a horrible thing to waste!

No imaginary friend, but I did have worlds I'd visit and make up stories about.

I do talk to myself, a lot; it's how I think. There's a kind of eternal debate or town meeting going on inside my head, and sometimes the level of debate becomes quite bitterly ad hominem, but I've never particularly worried about my sanity, because I recognize that they're all me.

I don't remember any imaginary friends when I was little. Since my Dad passed away he's been with me though. At times he's less "imagary" than the people around me.

Nope, I don't think so :) I had a younger sister so I was rarely alone.

You haven't met Earnie???? He's a kick!!

my friend was the wind. yes, i was a freaky kid. I have accused many of my online friends (ok, well one group in particular) of being imaginary/artificial.

They used to help me clean my room. Sometimes I wish they were still around.

Well, yeah, I'm still a kid, but I forgot my imaginary friends, yes friendS, long ago. Not that I think it's bad to have one. I think insecure people NEED one, that it helps. Children, in my personal opinion as having been one for 14 years, are almost always insecure and need something to turn to. Because adults don't always get just what we are trying to say or get through to them, we have to turn to someone who does understand. If we don't have a friend/sibling who does or can, we go to imaginary friends.

i never had an ongoing imaginary friend. i often invented characters to interact with while playing in the woods, at the beach, etc., but they were always one shot deals.

Imaginary? They were real! (Mostly, they were characters in books and stuffed animals. The friendships may have been imaginary, but the objects of them were real.)

no, but I've been one.