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Adults with imaginary friends

  • 06-02-2018 11:52pm
    #1
    Corned Beef Sandwich
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    I've heard stories of people who have had imaginary friends as children and then grow into adulthood and still see them (like John Nash). Do you know any?


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  • #2
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Anyone who is a religious believer


  • #3
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Corned Beef Sandwich wrote: »
    I've heard stories of people who have had imaginary friends as children and then grow into adulthood and still see them (like John Nash). Do you know any?

    "Speed" , the drug , used give me hallucinations a bit like what your talking about, I believe if you sniff petrol , it does something similar.


  • #4
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Corned Beef Sandwich wrote: »
    I've heard stories of people who have had imaginary friends as children and then grow into adulthood and still see them (like John Nash). Do you know any?

    Sure do you remember I was only chatting to yourself and Napoleon Bonaparte apart about this last Thursday. When we were going over to Harvey's house.


  • #5
    Hoboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,590 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    Corned Beef Sandwich wrote: »
    I've heard stories of people who have had imaginary friends

    This site is full of them.


  • #6
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    I'm not being funny but if an adult genuinely claimed to be seeing an imaginary friend all the time and was talking to them shouldn't a friend or family member be telling their GP immediately for acessment?


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  • #7
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    I remember Sally in Home and Away had an imaginary friend "Milko"
    At one stage bad guy Dodge started telling Sally that Milko was hanging around with him now, And Milko didn't like Sally anymore. Much to her distress. It all got sorted out in the end though.


  • #8
    The_Valeyard
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    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Anyone who is a religious believer

    Watch out!!! We got a bad-ass over here!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:


  • #9
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    How do you know there is an atheist in the room?
    .... Oh you'll know..

    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Anyone who is a religious believer


    ....You'll know... Lol.


  • #10
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Anyone who is a religious believer


    Perhaps you are an imagining of God's?


  • #11
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    I have an imaginary girlfiend,
    But only for a few minutes the odd day !


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  • #12
    James 007
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    I have 2 to 3 imaginary friends, usually i talk to them late at night, mostly weekends, usually when I am drinking ice tea from a bottle. One is called J D and the other friend is called John Power. I cant remember the third imaginary friend. My friend Paddy thinks Im half mad when he comes to visit me, he probably thinks I am talking to myself.


  • #13
    Jack Kanoff
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    I've just been to an imaginary sex party...ah nuts .wrong thread .


  • #14
    lulu1
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    Don't know about adults but my neighbour looked after her grand daughter when her mum went to work . Every day she would hear the child talking and laughing in the bedroom where she kept her toys. She thought nothing off it but one day she went to the room and says to the child, Whats all the talking and laughing about today? to which the reply was.

    Oh me and mentions name are having great fun. Neighbour said the shivers ran through her and she had to phone her husband to come home from work.

    The child's imaginery friend turned out to be the man who owned the land that the grannys house was built on and was dead over 40 years. There was no way on this earth that the child ever heard the man's name mentioned


  • #15
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Watch out!!! We got a bad-ass over here!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

    Prove him wrong.


  • #16
    ThinkProgress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭ThinkProgress


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Watch out!!! We got a bad-ass over here!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

    Okay, which of them dirty priests was it this time?

    Name and shame! :pac:


  • #17
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    lulu1 wrote: »
    Don't know about adults but my neighbour looked after her grand daughter when her mum went to work . Every day she would hear the child talking and laughing in the bedroom where she kept her toys. She thought nothing off it but one day she went to the room and says to the child, Whats all the talking and laughing about today? to which the reply was.

    Oh me and mentions name are having great fun. Neighbour said the shivers ran through her and she had to phone her husband to come home from work.

    The child's imaginery friend turned out to be the man who owned the land that the grannys house was built on and was dead over 40 years. There was no way on this earth that the child ever heard the man's name mentioned
    What was the name? Probably Patrick or James or something

    Or else r/thathappened


  • #18
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    A childhood friend had an imaginary friend called Milco. Wonder if that came to anything?


  • #19
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Corned Beef Sandwich wrote: »
    I've heard stories of people who have had imaginary friends as children and then grow into adulthood and still see them (like John Nash). Do you know any?

    John Nash was a paranoid schizophrenic, that probably explains the imaginary friends. If an adult was seeing things like that it would be a very worrying symptom of possible mental illness!


  • #20
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Anyone who is a religious believer

    You've always got a friend in Jebus.


  • #21
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    Mr. Squigglesby does not like the term "imaginary", he identifies as a person of non-corporeal existence.


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  • #22
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,690 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Donald Trump has an imaginary friend called Many-people-are-saying, whom he regularly quotes in his tweets.


  • #23
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    I remember Sally in Home and Away had an imaginary friend "Milko"
    At one stage bad guy Dodge started telling Sally that Milko was hanging around with him now, And Milko didn't like Sally anymore. Much to her distress. It all got sorted out in the end though.

    Didn't he turn out to be real, he was her twin brother? Or something!


  • #24
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Anyone who is a religious believer

    Warn a guy. I almost cut myself on the edginess of this.


  • #25
    The_Valeyard
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Prove him wrong.

    Prove him right.


  • #26
    draiochtanois
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #27
    pleas advice
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Prove him wrong.

    He made the claim, it's up to him to back it up...


  • #28
    topper75
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    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    I remember Sally in Home and Away had an imaginary friend "Milko"
    At one stage bad guy Dodge started telling Sally that Milko was hanging around with him now, And Milko didn't like Sally anymore. Much to her distress. It all got sorted out in the end though.

    Theatre of the absurd. Brilliant.

    If Beckett were alive today, he would be on the first plane to Aus.


  • #29
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Harvey is on Film4 now. The king of imaginary friends.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #30
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,483 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Tulpa - Have a look at this - https://www.tulpa.info/what-is-a-tulpa/
    The world is a strange place.
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



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  • #31
    jigglypuffstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭jigglypuffstuff


    Supercell wrote: »
    Tulpa - Have a look at this - https://www.tulpa.info/what-is-a-tulpa/
    The world is a strange place.

    Highly strange...tulpas and egregores are not something I'd be inclined know a whole lot about..but from what I've read on the topic..it appears they are not something to go "playing with"


  • #32
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    Some people even marry their imaginary friends.

    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/irish-woman-married-to-300yearold-pirate-spirit-hits-back-at-critics-36552271.html


  • #33
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    pleas advice wrote: »
    He made the claim, it's up to him to back it up...
    He just made the claim that Ulysses Gaze was 'a bad-ass'.


  • #34
    JMNolan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭JMNolan


    Imaginary friends? lol, sounds like you could do with a cigarette. Barney, give this guy a cigarette, he's freakin' out.


  • #35
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Jack Kanoff wrote: »
    I've just been to an imaginary sex party...ah nuts .wrong thread .

    Wrong sex party...


  • #36
    pleas advice
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    He just made the claim that Ulysses Gaze was 'a bad-ass'.

    it was Ulysses who made the claim "Anyone who is a religious believer" has an imaginary friend. It's up to him to prove that claim

    (that's how it works, right? ... )


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  • #37
    wexie
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    James 007 wrote: »
    I cant remember the third imaginary friend.

    Johnny Walker?


  • #38
    Rezident
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    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    How do you know there is an atheist in the room?
    .... Oh you'll know..





    ....You'll know... Lol.

    Yes they're like vegans.


  • #39
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Rezident wrote: »
    Yes they're like vegans.

    What ? :eek:
    They don't believe in vegetables either????


  • #40
    cycle4fun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭cycle4fun


    Reminds me of "Wilson" in Tom Hanks film, "Castaway" I think it was called.


  • #41
    wexie
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    pone2012 wrote: »
    Highly strange...tulpas and egregores are not something I'd be inclined know a whole lot about..but from what I've read on the topic..it appears they are not something to go "playing with"

    I'd love to hear what a clinical psychologist makes of this kinda thing


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  • #42
    Bob_Marley
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    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Anyone who is a religious believer

    Trying too hard with preaching there, sounds like you're the one kidding yourself with imagination, and you know it man :) !


  • #43
    Comhrá
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    I have around 200 imaginary friends on Facebook.


  • #44
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Bob_Marley wrote: »
    Trying too hard with preaching there, sounds like you're the one kidding yourself with imagination, and you know it man :) !

    "You're never alone, when you're with Christ" - Ted


  • #45
    porte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭porte


    Facebook.


  • #46
    indioblack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Imaginary friends.
    Or, as Tony Hancock remarked in "The Radio Ham".
    "I've got friends all over the world, all over the world -
    none in this country but all over the world".


  • #47
    Bob_Marley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Bob_Marley


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    "You're never alone, when you're with Christ" - Ted

    More religion again !

    More trying too hard preaching man ! Relying on Fr. Ted ? Now that that's what you call imaging things . . . .funniest thing is it comes through that only one you're really kidding and trying to convince is yourself. :)


  • #48
    Professor Moriarty
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    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Reminds me of "Wilson" in Tom Hanks film, "Castaway" I think it was called.

    That's correct. Another film with an imaginary friend is Harvey starring James Stewart. Harvey was a 6ft white rabbit.


  • #49
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Bob_Marley wrote: »
    More religion again !

    More trying too hard preaching man ! Relying on Fr. Ted ? Now that that's what you call imaging things . . . .funniest thing is it comes through that only one you're really kidding and trying to convince is yourself. :)

    It's not Father Ted, Brother Bob

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  • #50
    Bob_Marley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Bob_Marley


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    It's not Father Ted, Brother Bob

    More imagining, man you have it bad :D


  • #51
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    What about people who are actually real but you just like to imagine they are your friends?


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