https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:48:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-760170 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:59:37 +0000 IRunForFun 760170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: WHOA! That's sad, and also just a little creepy. </p> <p>@VEGMAMA: Wow, see, those were the types of stories that made me stop and think about it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-760159 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:53:03 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 760159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: This is both sweet and spooky at the same time... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-760151 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:51:34 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 760151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PointeShoesTutus: LOL I love this!!</p> <p>Mine was named Norman! It was a short friendship, though. I was a just bored and lonely only child... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-760143 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:48:06 +0000 lilyann 760143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My brother and I never had imaginary friends but we always played together (3 yrs apart) so maybe that had something to do with it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-759960 Fri, 03 May 2013 13:30:57 +0000 Turd Ferguson 759960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never did, but more so because I "knew" that there wasn't such a thing/it wasn't real (I loooved to read anything and everything so I was very critical of things like cartoons and such from a young age: "Mom, there is no way that that anvil could fall on him and he'd get up again...this is dumb." Hahahah, I wasn't much fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-759956 Fri, 03 May 2013 13:29:21 +0000 Vegmama 759956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: WHOA!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-759954 Fri, 03 May 2013 13:28:41 +0000 Vegmama 759954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't ... but I voted on the 'ghost' one. It sounds silly, but I really believe that. My sister (who was a lot younger than me) had an imaginary friend for a few years. The details she would tell us were so unusual, and he eventually 'died' ... It was very traumatic for her, and always creeped me out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-759467 Fri, 03 May 2013 10:18:09 +0000 wheres_c 759467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had one. His name was grimble grumpet and he lived in the wall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-759010 Fri, 03 May 2013 07:20:07 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 759010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never had one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758999 Fri, 03 May 2013 07:05:57 +0000 JoJoGirl 758999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I spent a lot of time talking to myself as a kid... I think once I tried to make up an imaginary friend so someone would be on the other end of the conversation, but that lasted about a day ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758997 Fri, 03 May 2013 07:03:59 +0000 Honeybee 758997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in a very small rural hospital. There were only a few rooms so sometimes I ended up sharing a room with someone else. Every time one of my roommates would die, they came back as my imaginary friend. The two I remember most clearly were Smokey (a senior who died of lung cancer; he used to tell me stories about traveling around the country by hitching rides on train cars) and Boogey(a high schooler who eventually died from injuries he got in a motorcycle crash; his real name was Robert). I think it was my way of dealing with death/grief at a pretty young age, but who knows. It could've been ghosts. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758978 Fri, 03 May 2013 06:47:50 +0000 mrs. 64 758978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sweet T: That's hilarious. </p> <p>My sister had an imaginary friend named Farmer Brown. 100% she made him up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758651 Thu, 02 May 2013 21:26:45 +0000 IRunForFun 758651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OK, I want to know who voted that they had an imaginary friend and think it may have been a ghost! I am intrigued. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758186 Thu, 02 May 2013 19:33:35 +0000 Weagle 758186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did. His name was Boy and he lived upstairs in the blue room. He moved out of he house one day and into the apartment complex across town. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758160 Thu, 02 May 2013 19:25:31 +0000 Sweet T 758160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't have one but my little brother did. His name was Peter and he was very mischievous. My dad kicked him out of the car on a road trip and my brother was hysterical over it. But Peter never came back! Haha my whole family loves this story. It embarrasses my brother to no end! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-758085 Thu, 02 May 2013 19:10:24 +0000 Alivoo01 758085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! I'm not creative, even now. Makes me sad because I'm not creative at all. Thankfully, the hubby is, which makes it even worse. Ha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757913 Thu, 02 May 2013 18:29:07 +0000 IRunForFun 757913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PointeShoesTutus: Hahaha, I have to say, that's pretty funny. And cute. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757847 Thu, 02 May 2013 18:13:32 +0000 PointeShoesTutus 757847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a whole group of them, inexplicably called "The Fuddies." I'm told that I once locked them in the bathroom and my dad had to take the doorknob off. When my mom asked me why I put them in the bathroom, I responded with "the girl Fuddies are ok but those boy fuds were driving me crazy." I think I was about 4. I don't remember what happened to them. I think they just went away when I went to kindergarten. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757798 Thu, 02 May 2013 18:00:03 +0000 IRunForFun 757798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Hahaha well I don't know, maybe you should dig up the yard of your childhood home and see if you find any fossils! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757780 Thu, 02 May 2013 17:52:18 +0000 .twist. 757780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was a whole imaginary dinosaur family that lived in our backyard... I knew that wasn't true! Hah! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757751 Thu, 02 May 2013 17:39:31 +0000 IRunForFun 757751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oooo ok I want to read comments from the people who are voting they think imaginary friends could be ghosts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757731 Thu, 02 May 2013 17:30:42 +0000 Mrs. Pen 757731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had several imaginary friends but the only one whose name I remember was Sunny who was actually a bully haha! I was 4 I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-imaginary-friend-1#post-757728 Thu, 02 May 2013 17:29:05 +0000 IRunForFun 757728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>After someone posted about the creepy things kids say the other day, I went and read the original Reddit post and most of the responses to it (there were thousands).</p> <p>ETA: The post asked parents to comment with the creepiest thing their child ever said/did.</p> <p>I couldn't help but notice that a recurring theme in the responses was kids between ages 2 and 7(ish) having imaginary friends that they talked to, played with, and often described in great detail. Several parents said they did some research and discovered that a person with the same name as their child's imaginary friend, had, in fact, existed, and had some tie to the house they lived in or the surrounding area. Normally, the imaginary friend would disappear between ages 7 and 10. The implications of the responses were that these imaginary friends were actually ghosts or spirits, and some kids could see them because they hadn't yet been taught to believe things like that don't exist.</p> <p>I thought it was freaky, but super interesting.</p> <p>I didn't have an imaginary friend growing up, but my younger sister did. He had a very unique name and she'd talk to him and play games with him and talk about him to us. She said he was "just a little boy." I'd pretend to see/talk to him and she'd usually tell me he wasn't there right now or that I was facing the opposite direction he was, etc, looking at me like I was a total moron. He disappeared one day and I can't remember where she said he went.</p> <p>I was kind of jealous and wanted an imaginary friend for myself, so I tried to make one up, but I couldn't. </p> <p>I know all the psychological explanations for childhood imaginary friends, but that Reddit post got me thinking.</p> <p>Did you have an imaginary friend when you were little? What was his/her name? What happened to that friend as you grew up? </p>