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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I thought imaginary friends were just something in the movies. Kids actually have them?

[-] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

When we were kids, my sister (4 years old at the time) had a friend named Jennifer who “lived down the street” none of us had ever met. She went to play with Jennifer every day for hours on end. We moved to a new town and my sister again disappeared for several hours. When she came home she said she had been playing with Jennifer because Jennifer had moved too. Sister later confirms that Jennifer was an imaginary friend, but has no idea where she was going every day or what she was doing. Now my parents are so much more worried about where the grandkids are when they visit. My sisters and I tease them about where the concern was when we were growing up.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

This convinces me further that imaginary friends are only supernatural if real at all

[-] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Seriously! Her son now talks about our uncle who passed, says he comes to visit sometimes. Big yikes from me.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I don't remember having imaginary friends but my aunt and grandma have always told me the story of how I was sitting upset one and time and they asked me what happened and I told them there was an older lady scolding me. From what I described to them they were convinced it was my deceased great grandma that had been giving me shit for something or other. Apparently she was a bit of a grouch and had died in that house. House was also super haunted in other ways from what they say.

[-] hex@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I imagine a lot of kids would use this excuse to just go play by themselves in the woods or whatever. Or, they could have been hanging out with other kids. So in this case it's less an imaginary friend and more of a fake friend.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Where do you think religions came from

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
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