When my sister and I were little, we would get bored on family vacations, so one day we invented our own imaginary trailer full of imaginary pets. We had around 30 animals in it: horses, dogs, rabbits, everything. The chicks would always get loose in my grandmother's basement, so we'd spend a good 10 minutes rounding them up again (and hurting ourselves in the process). Then, anytime we left someplace, we'd always have to check the back of the car to make sure the trailer was hooked up, and we'd always freak out on mountains, thinking the trailer would come loose and roll all the way down the hill.

Anon

When I was little, like 4 or 5, I had an imaninary friend named Jemma. I also have a real life sister named Emma... so things sometimes got confusing. One day, my dad sat down at the table and I started to cry because he had just squished Jemma, but he miss heard me and jumped up and yelled, thinking he had sat on my sister. OH well.. I still have Emma, but sometimes Jemma might be better.

Anon

More my brother's belief: He had an imaginary childhood friend called Batty Edwards who used to come on our camping holiday to Wales each summer and stay in the tattiest old tin caravan on the whole site. My brother quite happy with his "friend" but the rest of us were frightened to death and imagined a sort of serial killer hiding out in there!

Anon

I used to have an imaginary friend when I was 3 and we used to play ball and he would always win. He was really tall and would make fun of me( I can't remember his name). One day we were outside and he spotted the kid across the street and said he wanted to play with him instead. I said ok I'll see you later and he said yeah whatever loser.That for some reason was before my first day of preschool.

Penny Lane

When I was 3-4, I believed that my manners (which my mother was always telling me to "watch") were a community of tiny people who lived in my tummy. There was a whole little town in there, with a mayor named Mary Manner and lots of other citizens, whose first names all started with M. For some reason it was important that they be kept secret, though. One Thanksgiving my mom made a really big deal about how important it was that I watch my manners. She found me in the bathroom, putting a bandaid over my navel to keep the Manners from escaping. Of course she laughed herself silly, but she didn't try to convince me that they weren't real. Even so, I lost my belief soon afterward.

heidi

Ok, well, you know how when you are drinking from a cup, and you look in and see your reflection at the bottom? Well, when I was little, I used to think that reflection was a little man living in a different world at the bottom of the cup. lol, a very werid imagination I had.

Taryn

I used to believe that my favorite animal characters from the books about the Moomins were my invisible friends and used to keep a space for them all in my bed. I slept squeeezed on the wall in order to make them feel comfortable.

Radka

When I was younger I spent all my time playing with my sister. She was 2 years older than me, so she started school while I was left at home. So, I made up an imaginary friend. Her name was Julie and she was a vampire. At the time Beetlejuice was my favorite movie, so I decided that Julie could only be reached if you drew a door in the dirt with a stick and knocked on it three times. As my sister began coming home with stories from school I started to get jealous so I made up my own school. After my sister told her stories I told all about my school (which Julie went to also). In my school I had 3 teachers, a mean one, a nice one and a funny one. I even made up classmates giving each of them a different personality. I would adlib stories about them and my sister would always crack up. I should have been a writer.

Midget

When I was younger, and I would ride in the back of the car by myself, I would buckle the other two seatbelts because I thought there were two green aliens, with the typical antenna, etc. And that one was a boy alien and the other was a girl alien with a pink ribbon on her antenna to indicate that it was, in fact, a girl. They would just sit there and not talk to me at all. Waaaah.

the alien person

This is one i haven't and wont grow out of... I still believe my childhood "imaginary friend" (an old man, in overalls and bowler hat) was actually the spirit of my great grandfather. ( I was describing him to my father and he told me thats exactly what my great-grampa looked like.)

Anon

When I was very little, I created a place called Rosie Land (because my name was Rosie.) In this land it was always sunny and a nice day out and we all sat around sipping lemonade, which came from a huuuge lemonade pitcher. There were also wolves in Rosie Land, but they stayed outside the fence and never bothered us.

Rose

When i was little I used to have an imaginary bumble bee friend called "Bug". One time when one of my friends came over to my house we sat down on the grass and then I started yelling "AAAHH YOU SQUISHED BUG". Then i beat him up. I really believed bug was real. LOL

Anon

When I was young i had an Imaginary friend called Lenny,although this is a boys name she was a girl. when my mum asked about Lenny i told her that her mummy and daddy died in a fire and that she had a dog that was black because it was burned, so she moved into my wardrobe. I also cried when i found out Lennie was a boys name, I used to take her to school and everything!

Nik

When I was six I had an imaginary friend named Binky. When I was seven my dad ran over Binky with the car.

Shadia Granger-Malfoy

My mom used to tell me I had a brother named Irving. She would hug him and tell him how much she loved him whenever I wouldn't come to her. A vase ended up broken one day. When she asked me what happend I told her Irving did it. Haven't seen him since.

Rebecca

Once when I was 5 or 6 in my old house my sister and I were in our dining room eating cookies. My sister said that there was an imaginary friend in there named Peter. Every time I looked at "his" cookie, there was another bite missing. For a period of time I thought he was real.

M

Once when my mother was waking my sister up in the morning, my sister jumped when my mom touched her.
"I'm sorry I scared you," my mom said.
"It wasn't you that scared me, it was all the other people in here," was my sister's half asleep, matter-of-fact reply.
The scary thing was that she was 17 at the time.

scared-sister

When I was 7 i had a made up friend called Frank. Frank was 6ft tall and was pretty much your average mobester kind of guy. Frank was a hit man for a very well known and powerful family called the Kantonies and when i went to sleep he would go out and do hits then come back at dawn to look out for me. Over the years Frank grew tired of killing and when i was 9 he retired and moved to Maine under the name Tony and owns a store there for other imaginary people to shop in.

=H=

When i was little i had many imaginary friends that i thought were actually there. there names are as follows: luke skywalker, yoshi, captain hook, zorro, casper the friendly ghost, r2d2, and long john silver. one time i actually made a birthday cake for yoshi and we had a party with my neighbors. and i yelled at my father and scared him one time telling him "DAD YOU ARE STANDING ON CASPER'S TAIL!!!!" and that scared him but he laughed. i know now that they are not real.

lonely child

I was just reminicing about my imaginary friend that I had from about age 4 to age 5. His name was Cockle The Funger and he was a hobo. I remeber he would appear and we would laugh together and share lunch that he would unwrap from his polka-dot hankerchief that he carried on the end of a long stick. I remember one day he left to go and sit in the sun drenched rafters of an old dusty barn, to whistle. I never saw him again.

Michelle