Did you have an imaginary friend?
By Faye
@FayeHazel (40230)
United States
October 28, 2016 10:14am CST
This post may contain spoilers from the movie - "Inside Out".
A portion of one of my favorite animated movies, "Inside Out" - features an "imaginary friend" that the main character had as a small child. In the movie the "imaginary friend" was a fuzzy pink elephant type creature that dressed as a clown named "Bing Bong".
Which got my curiosity up. Who here had an imaginary friend as a kid? I didn't, and I asked my parents about it. Nope, no "bing bong", or any other imaginary friend for me.
It also made me wonder something else. Certain people believe that children are naturally more sensitive to the Spiritual realm and can do things like see auras and spirits until the world teaches them other wise. I don't know if I believe this or not. I guess it could be possible. But who knows for sure? So my other theory about "imaginary friends" - is - are they infact something of the spiritual realm which adults typically can't see? That's spooky and how appropriate as we are creeping up on Halloween.
Did you have an imaginary friend? And if so, did the friend appear more like a human, or more like an animal?
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
28 Oct 16
I never had one, but my eldest daughter had one for some time.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
28 Oct 16
Were you concerned ? Or was it like a normal part of childhood, not worrisome?
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
28 Oct 16
@FayeHazel I accepted it without much problem.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
28 Oct 16
How fun! I almost wish I had some too now
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
28 Oct 16
That's special, actually yours reminds me of the "worry doll" legend - I had some when I was a little kid - tiny dolls you were supposed to tell your worries to
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
28 Oct 16
I like the real kind of friends, too
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@5thHouse (1678)
• Sheffield, England
28 Oct 16
I had many imaginary friends as a child. Most of them were animals. The most memorable was called Winnison Chick. He was a small chicken. Where I got the name from, I have never known, but I think Winnison Chick ought to be a cartoon character. There was also a bird called Scrubby Bird, who I imagined as some kind of sparrow type.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
28 Oct 16
Oh that's amazing! Fascinating really. Winnison... I like it. The Adventures of Winnison Chick and Scrubby Bird... should be a comic book.
@epiffanie (11327)
• Australia
1 Nov 16
I had an imaginary friend when I was a little girl .. then as I grow older, more came and now I have 12 ..lol .. I call them the 12 others ..
