Are Imaginary friends ghosts? I had lots of imaginary ghosts, one that lived in a tree, a girl that lived in my house too.

No they are people you make with your mind. A lot of people who had imaginary friends become mediums.

I agree with bloodyfish. I had plenty of imaginary friends in my day and I'm sure they werent ghosts. It really wouldn't make sense for them to be ghosts, I mean, you can't invent a ghost. However, on the other hand, when children actually do see ghosts their parents would most likely think that they just created an imaginary friend. I really don't think whether or not you have imaginary friends has anything to do with your sensitivity to the paranormal. It just simply means that you're imaginitive.

I always had a really odd imagination. My family has always been a very psychic family. Thats where I guess I get all of my ablities. But yeah, I always talked to my imaginary friends. Then I grew out of them.

"No they are people you make with your mind. A lot of people who had imaginary friends become mediums."

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Bless you Taylor, yes you do. I remember now.

Your welcome.

In a sceptic way? You make it hard to understand what you say. Im just saying what I read in other places.

Edit: I never had an imaginary friend.

I wish I had an imaginary friend. They're always so fine.

Ie. Drop Dead Fred, or Paul Bettany in A Beautiful Mind.

Imaginary friends couldnt be ghost i because some are not even people (most are) for example when i had one they could fly and looked nothing like a person so unless people are purple and fly it is hlghly unlikely they are ghosts I think they are just images/friends that a childs brain makes up whrn they ae lonly

I had a ton of imaginary friends as a child, and I'm definitely not a medium. Kids are always very imaginative -- in fact, it's not uncommon for a child to have minor hallucinations. I think a child's creativity is to blame, not the spirits of the dead.

It's an interesting theory, though.

Note that I said a lot.

Children normally see imaginary friends. Children are also more open to ghosts so maybe imaginary friends are ghosts.

Exactly

Not every imaginary friend is a ghost, and not every ghost is a childs imaginary friend.

I had a very active imagination as a kid. I don't recall if I ever had an imaginary friend, but I do remember seeing 'strange' things. My parents believed that I had the gift to see beyond the veil.

its weird to think that a kid could be talking to this "imaginary friend" and playing with it and a parent would think its nothing but imagination but i wonder if the child would realise a ghost from an imaginary friend that would be weird it would be like a haunting and they wouldnt realise lol

I had 8 imaginary friends... They all slept on a pretend 8-leveled bunk-bed with me...I was seven! I am soooo not a 'Medium', I know that!

i remember one...it always makes me laugh when i was a kid...it was so thin and about 6 feet tall,very goofy face...

never had an imaginary friend oh well.

I know, I was just posting my opinion. No harm intended.




Which leads me to wonder why children are more open to these things. I'm guessing it has to do with us adults rationalizing everything, while children can easily accept something as being 'magical'.

I never had an imaginary friend Just saw the odd spirit I knew the difference even aged 4-5. I clearly remember a shadowy figure "sitting" on my mum's sideboard; I told my mum it was Jesus come to visit. My friends had imaginary friends and I was always jealous that I didn't have one LOL

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My neighbour’s daughter has a imaginary friend who she draws and talks with. They asked her who she was talking to and she said Jim. She spends hours talking to him but the weirdest part is there was a man named Jim who use to live in there house. The girl is only 4 how crazy is that , she doesn’t even know that a man named Jim use to live there.

I believe there are some cases where an imaginary childhood friend can be a spirit, but I think it's rarer than is commonly thought. My son used to talk about the lady in the corner and hold conversations with her, even going to the extent of saying he was told not to say when asked who he was talking to. This was quite alarming, but he grew out of it after a couple of months. He can't remember who she was now if you ask him. I can't put this down to one or the other as I never was able to get enough information, I guess it's going to stay a mystery

hmm i hav always thought that imaginary friends are really just someones imagination, which the child can control what their 'friend' does because it is all in their head.... tho i suppose it will be odd if it is the imaginary friend that controls the child and causes odd behaviour..... it is possilbe that it is a ghost too

I think that "Imaginary Playmates" might be familiar spirits. A spirit that is familiar with the person or family or someone who previously lived in the area.

Hi I'm new to this forum, just thought I'd post what happened to me has a child. My Mom thought I had an "Imaginary friend" but to me she seemed has real as you and I. This was about 25 years ago, my Mom finally realized one day that my "imaginary" friend isn't so imaginary after all, when she saw my toy that I was playing with turn around and come
back to me. My Mom then sat me down and asked me about my friend.
Before this had ever happened my Mom would have dreams of a little
girl coming up to the back door and would ask if my Mom would follow
her outside. Most of the time my Mom would tell her that she was busy
and to go play.
So one night when she had the dream she decided to follow her. The
little girl took her to a spot in my Mom's garden and the
girlsaid, "Right there!" Confused my mom asked her what does she
mean? The girl proceeded to tell her that she was buried right
there. Out of being shock or scared my Mom woke up in a panic.
So back to when my Mom was asking me about my friend, I had told her
that the little girl told me her Daddy was angry and took her away
from her Mommy and her Daddy put her in the ground in the backyard.
All she wanted was to be back with her Mommy again because she missed
her and was very sad and lonely. My Mom of course was shocked to hear
this. To this day my Mom and I still want to go back and dig up the
back yard but of course that just isn't possible! It might seem
kind of strange if the owners came out and saw us back there with
their yard dug up. lol
All sort of strange things would happen in that house. The phone in
the basement would ring but it wouldn't ring up stairs. You would
hear knocking on the other side of the cyclinder blocks in the
basement, figure that one out? The washing machine and dryer would go
on and off. What made it worse for my Mom is the fact my Dad traveled
all the time, so her and I would be the only ones to experience it.
She felt like she was going crazy. I do know that for quite a number of years after people didn't live in that house for longer than 3 years at a time. It was a beautiful house.

Toni D. (Sorry for such a long post)

Imaginaryfriends are ghost?... i have never realy thought about that, i mean... most imaginaryfriends are probobly just something the child has made up.
But still some imaginaryfriends are probobly ghosts who wanna get friends. (Maybe because they didn`t have many friends when they lived themself)

Wait a second why stop with saying that some imaginaryfriends are ghosts, what if some of them in fact are aliens?

Now thats a scary thought!!!

I to once had an imaginary friend. Then I flushed him down the toilet because he was a pathetic wast of my time. After that I got a fish who sad to say soon joined my friend in the sewer.

Toni, have you tried sourcing local news stories from the area of your old house? If a child went missing then I'd think something would be mentioned in the papers. It will give you a starting point

Also you could always contact the present owners of the house and ask them if they've done any work on the garden, or have experienced anything strange. If they're having experiences there also maybe they'd want to help you find out if she's really buried there?

Bebi,

I've thought about researching it but have never followed through. I guess since I'm without a car for the next couple of weeks, I will give the interenet a bit more use than I normally do. I've been going nuts trying to find stuff to do to pass the time. I'll let you know if I come up with anything!

Toni D.

Hi, I'm a newbie here but I had an imaginary friend when I was very young - about 3-4. Her name was Zarsi and I don't remember her at all and never would have if my parents hadn't told me but apparently I really believed she existed. I had a very irrational fear of cars when i was young and my parents thought that maybe I had Zarsi to help me cope with it. I would love to know more about people who had imaginary friends.

Great point Ioz, and welcome to UM Imaginary friends as a coping mechanism; it's a good theory and one that seems very probable to me.

I just saw the title of this thread.

In elementary school I use to have this friend that spoke of a "blue fairy" that use to visit her in her room at night. I sat in awe listening to her tell this select group of girlfriends at the corner table of the classroom, all these details of her night to night experiences and how this blue fairy looked, when she would come to see her.

White wings that she (my friend) could see through, but that moved very quickly. Long dark hair and a long blue dress. She would come in, bathed in yellow light, and sit at the foot of her bed or hover near her pillow, and speak to her till she fell asleep.

I loved those tales and would go home hoping at night I would have some such friend come see me. Never happened, but I still remember those stories like it was yesterday, now that I think back.

Einstein said imagination is more important than knowledge. I have to agree. I think imagination keeps the entire body/spirit, invigorated, as the mind has to focus so much on believing what's suppose to be so "normal" about our regular day to day.

Toni D., why can't you dig up your backyard?

Nessieman, I no longer live there. I haven't lived in the house for approx. 25 years. I would if I could though.