before i start please excuse the spelling

ok here goes....i read somewhere that we all are born with 6 senses..but we loss 1 due to education..i.e we lose our sixth sense because we are educated , basically science rules out the "so called paranormal". so is paranormal actually normal and science just puts it into the nutball world because they cannot it explain it....(another point why does science keep ruling out such things as ufo/ghost/and the like....it was always my believe that a true scientest should have an open mind to the possiblity of new things)and back to my first point children and thier invisible friends....my son who is three but can't speek much english..due to the fact the first year of his life he was ill,reflux/acid/milk intolerence...nothing really to serious but enough to hold him back from speaking......anyway he turns round to the walls and has a conversation in as the doctors term (baby hebrew) but he has learned to speak english since starting nursery..but tonight...major creepy lol he has a bottle of milk in his hand and looks up to the light bulb and starts talking...he said to the light bulb ''bye bye miow'' and held his milk up to it as if offering it a drink .helpppppppppppppppppppppppp......kids don't you just love them

That is like my friends baby. I was minding her today and her mum said to me; she has a thing for looking up at the ceiling as if something is there.... and she did do it quite a few times while I was there.

To me I do reckon kids are in touch with something. Even her brother (4yrs); today he mentioned his friend malik and I said 'malik' isn't here, he replied but malik is invisible. So I didn't laugh or think there is a problem I just thought well don't all kids go through that phase of having an invisible friend? But the other thought that crossed my mind was 'spirits are all around us!' as a friend once told me. I do believe this.

i knew a guy when i was a kid with a little brother who also had the invisible friend. he would tell us that he lived on the street but we couldnt see him.

the interesting part of this story is that he also saw other invisible people too. he would never sleep alone because he claimed an 'invisible man with a knife' would stalk him when he was in his bed. it was a creepy time and a few weeks later the police caught a man fleeing my neighbors house. it turns out that he had been sneaking into that little boy's room with a knife and stalking over him for the past several weeks. no one would believe him until my neighbor's mom was sleeping on the couch and woke up with him stalking over her too. luckily, he was just crazy and not a killer because he fled at her screams and was apprehended.

moral of the story: you never know what is real and what is make believe with a child.

Thats one heck of a story Dshwartz,
My neice had an invisible friendby the name of Mr Rar . At first Mr Rar was a friend to play with and she would talk to him and share cups of pretend tea with him. Untill one day for some reason she became very scared of Mr Rar . This was quickly sorted when her Aunty Kismit threw the nasty Mr Rar out of the house.
There was no denying my neice really believed in her invisible friend but I feel it was more a stage she was going through.

I talk to my invisable friend all the time.... NOW before you running for the straight jackets etc .... Mine is my Grandfather and has been around me since I was 6. The strange thing is that Rhiannon has started to share things with friend, talk to them, say goodnite to empty chairs etc...though I am not freaked by this at all. I was curious to know who she was talking too, all I got out of her is Nandad... so I showed her a pic of her Gramps, but she pointed to my grandfather, her great grandad, so it seem he is watching over her too...

That story really creeped me out DS, what a horrible thing to happen. Almost a mini-
series in itself. Eeek.

I think that parents should never discourage a child from speaking/playing with an
invisible pal, except if that child excludes their 'real' friends, which is probably a little
bit unhealthy. Lol. After all, an invisible friend can't buy you a beer....

My Dad has often told me this story:

My Aunt when she was younger had an invisible friend simply named "Lady" whom she described in detail, she would speak to her daily and do all the usual things like pretend tea parties etc. My Dad recalls that it got to be such a "fascination" that when they would go out in the family car my Aunt would be uncontrollable if "Lady" had not been given a seat or had been forgotten.

Eventually she grew out of it with age, anyway as my Dad is well into the paranormal he started to look at the history of the house and found photos of an old lady who had died in the house when he showed them to my aunt she said that that was her friend from when she was little!!!!

Another spooky thing that happened was that my niece when about 3 years old was playing at the top end of a local field and was chattering away to herself and dancing about, when i asked her what she was doing she said she was dancing with the little boy - there wasn't anyone else around.

I am a firm believer that children and especially animals feel spirits.

I find it absolutely normal that children will talk to an invisible friend, since they aren't encumbered by society's "Normal" or "Abnormal" standards. Eventually as the child learns more and is being taught that in order to fit in they have to behave in a "Normal" fashion, if not they will be labeled as crazy or insane. We must teach them that they have to be who they are not who they're suppose to be.

I had an invisible friend for several years until the day came that I no longer could see him. I never knew his name, although I remember that "Sir" was being used a lot in our conversations. I was dissapointed because I couldn't play with him anymore but I learned a lot from him. Eventually as time went on I forgot about him but reading this post reawakened the memory. One of the best things that I learned from him was that it was ok to talk about the things that were bothering you because it wuld get worse if you just kept everything in.

There is a definate limit that should be placed on an invisible friend. (I don't want to become a hypocrite) If the child starts to listen to those invisible friends and do things that they aren't suppose to be doing, cutting off this friendship is the only way for the child to be safe.

I used to have an imaginary friend. His name was Bob! I would talk to him all the time. Sometimes I would not eat all my food and say I was bringing it to Bob in my room. My mom thought i was going crazy because before I started talking about Bob I had hit my head on the counter table. But that was not the case the doctor said. He said that kids tend to make up friends for some reason. I dont quite remember. Anyways a couple of months or maybe even years "Bob" left. I never thought about him since I read this. It brings back so much memories!!

I had an imaginary dog when I was little....but it was only to annoy my parents enough so they'd buy me a real one. It worked to my surprise and so I tried again but this time with an imaginary pony....didn't go so well that time

I had LOTS of invisible friends when I was little. Mostly cartoon characters My little sister still has invisible friends ( I read her the Silmarillion, and now she has Feanor the Elf as her best friend. They have cute tea parties ^.^)

I also had an immaginary friend when I was a child, but however it was an immaginary friend with a twist, he was embodied in some sort of small matchbox car. I've never put much thought to it as I thought that it was just a child's immagination, however in retrospect my immaginary friend had an unusual name, Jennings. Why or how I ever came up with that name is a mystery to me and my parents, as we have no contact with anyone called Jennings, and neither could I hear it on TV as Jennings is an English name, and I only ever watched Spanish TV at the time. Jennings had his own personality traits, he was honest, courageous, and extremely resourceful. With a paranormal twist I could probably say that the fact that Jennings was a car meant that this car was my link to this spirit/entity. In other words when I became fixated on the car I could see/speak/hear Jennings. On a side note when I was a baby my mother once called my father at work due to the fact that she was extrordinarily scared because I kept on looking at a corner in the room laughing and smiling at it, as if someone were actually there entertaining me. Could this be the origins of Jennings?

Well here's an imaginary friend for sale.....so if as they say: selling is a science, does this imply when you sell your imaginary friend, you make them real??

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...item=7121711723

Do people pay for them with imaginary dollars?

Well, I had an imaginary friend...I do remember making him up in an effort to get attention (I had no friends).

My parents took me to see a panel of psychiatrists that had me medicated and placed in their "care" for a week.

A lonely five year old boy with an imaginary friend = Weirdo that must be isolated and medicated for the next ten years (which is what happened for other reasons).

Pyromaniacs that call teachers obsanities = A cute little child that just needs a cuddle and a wowwy pop.

Sheesh, things are screwed up in society No wonder there are so many f***ed up people out there.

My little sister has a invisble friend called Tim and she also is talking to him and since my rabbit died on the 14th of Dec 04 she been running around the house yelling his name and saying shes chasing him