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I think most people talk to other people in their head sometimes.. they just don't always want to admit it.

Agreed. I wouldn't really say it's abnormal, it just feels kind of strange to explain out loud.

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mistaria.livejournal.com - 2011-07-02 19:54 (UTC) - Expand

THIS. I had several fictional crushes and friends when I was really young. I think it helped me find what kind of people I get along best with actually! Hang in there, anon!

I hope you can make some flesh friends. It's good that you have a coping mechanism, but the extent you've described is a short hop from cookoo-lookoo, imo.

yeah, I've done that too. I think a lot of people have, it's okay. You KNOW they're not real and you're trying to make relationships with the people around you, you're good. =)

Done that kind of thing for years. I really don't see why it would be a problem as the people doing it don't forget the "it's in my head" part. People who insist that it's automatically crazy no matter what just make me wonder why exactly humanity as a whole seems to think we're not allowed to have nice things. Why should things that aren't ABSOLUTE OBJECTIVE REALITY automatically be worthless and meaningless? Why can't we have imaginary fun? :/

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(Anonymous) - 2011-07-02 19:43 (UTC) - Expand

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tazthelemon.livejournal.com - 2011-07-03 03:38 (UTC) - Expand

For most of my teen years my imaginary best friend was a character from Dawson's Creek. I don't do the imaginary friend thing anymore, but looking back, it really saved me from killing myself and it helped me cope with the loneliness and abandonment.

Best of luck to you OP! I hope you will be able to make some good RL friends.

Yeah...I do this too. A lot.

It's concerned me at times that I better relationships with imaginary beings than I do with the few human friends I do have, but I think as long as you recognize that your imaginary friends are just that, you'll be okay.

You're not crazy, but you might be a writer.

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(Anonymous) - 2011-07-02 23:07 (UTC) - Expand

I've had "imaginary friends" since I was tiny. It took me a long time, but I realised they've never really gone away, and they're probably not. Sometimes, they're characters I write, sometimes they're people in my brain, and I've realised I'm plural, and I'm more-or-less okay with that. I am a reasonably successful adult in a challenging, prestigious PhD programme. I've had good relationships in the material world, and good ones in the worlds of my own making, too. Imaginary worlds are no less meaningful than the material one, and they are often just as real for any given individual. You've nothing to be ashamed of.

Yeah, pretty much, GPOY my entire life.

I've always done this as well, though not exactly to this extent, I don't think. Anyway, now that I'm older (mid-20s), I've discovered the problem with it is that it's so hard for RL friends to live up to the imaginary TV/celebrity/etc ones, regardless of my definite awareness that RL =/= TV. Point being...I hope you have better luck. I think the longer you go without having RL friends and just having the ones in your head, the harder it is to make them IRL-- and moreso, to keep them.

I've been doing this with the bands I love for years. (It's particularly fun with the Monkees, gotta say. :P) I see nothing wrong with this, as long as you're trying to make real friends.

Ì do similar things, Op.

Whether or not this is the best thing for you is debatable (and I think it's fine - you know they're not real,!) but you sure as hell aren't "a creeper" for it. I really wish people would stop describing people doing unusual things as creepy. The term should be reserved for people intentionally doing malicious and violating things, not people who have harmless imaginary friends.
(I'm directing my criticism at people who would call you creepy, not at you.)

Anon, I'm edging into 50 in a few years, and I still have imaginary friends.

Hm, I talk to myself out loud sometimes to better comprehend thoughts and ideas, but not in a conversational way and I've never had imaginary friends. Even in the darkest of times. I've made characters for fiction, but didn't interact with them. They've always been separate. So, I really can't relate.

I'm glad that OP is making an effort to make real friends and I hope that you do. I just hope that your imaginary ones don't get in the way of that... Forgive me, but the way OP is describing their imaginary friends seems a bit too strange to me. :/

I did this to an extent before I started writing fan fiction, and my sister did this, too. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Good luck making some meat friends!

By the way, if you don't have one already, you might want to consider getting a pet. Dogs, for instance, make wonderful companions.

Don't worry, OP. I've done this while I was in school too. I moved in the middle of HS and it being HS it was hard to fit in. I made friends with characters in my head. I still had social connections with people at work because it was easier to befriend them. The Friends in My Head stayed around until I met my then-boyfriend-now-husband, they're gone now. Hang in there, OP, you'll make real friends somehow, but don't be ashamed of those in your head.

I do that literally all the time. My favorite thing to do is, if I'm doing a really boring chore or errand, I imagine Arthur Weasley is watching me and he's fascinated.

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intoalkaseltzer.livejournal.com - 2011-07-04 02:26 (UTC) - Expand

I've done the exact same thing with My Chemical Romance for years.

I've done this for as long as I can remember. When I was little, my imaginary friends were Disney characters and 80s/90s TV cartoon characters, and Fred Savage, for some reason. ("Wonder Years," probably.) These days, it's whoever's highest on my crush radar, like Milo Ventimiglia, Callum Keith Rennie and Oded Fehr. I know most people would find it weird as hell, so I never talk about it, but it makes me feel less creeped out when I'm all by myself at home at night. Daydreaming about chatting with a hot famous guy is infinitely preferable (to me, anyway) to imagining every noise is really a burglar!

People should really tell you that overactive imaginations don't go away. :-/

Edited 2011-07-03 07:51 (UTC)

Eeeeeeeeeeeeverybody does this, me included.

Story of my life. I was a very lonely child throughout my school years and I had tons of imaginary friends from television and movies. It made things better. Sometimes I still do it (I'm 26).

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