I used to think that, for every real friend you made, another invisible (not imaginary) friend would become yours. For that reason, my invisible friends were always named after my real friends.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends

others believed things like this
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - I thought my imaginary friend was real and he imagined me
I hope he still believes I existAnon - when i was growing up i had two imaginary friends. One was named Jennifer, the other was named Onion.— Tessica
- Yesterday I realised that invisible ink doesn`t make me invisible.— Jonathan Eleven years old
- i USED To beleive that cartoons were real and i made them my imageniary friends!— Shaman Queen
- I used to have an imaginary friend named Mr. Nobody. He would protect me from my imaginary enemy, Bad Elmer.— Kdees