The Real Reason Kids Have Imaginary Friends

[@Master_Therion]

My imaginary friend would tutor me in math. He helped me understand imaginary numbers.

[@Sigzyl]

Master Therion Well, imaginary numbers are a thing

[@jackielinde7568]

bintou toure, who's to say that Master Therion's imaginary friend isn't a thing as well?

[@tomsadler2548]

Oh yeah? What eleventy-nine times tenty.ate

[@tomsadler2548]

Eleventy nine times tenty point ate is elventypoint ninety ate

[@tomsadler2548]

Imaginary numbers work differently

[@MsMarmima]

I never had an imaginary friend, and I also never had any real ones. So this video checks out.

[@taken_over3416]

MsMarmima I relate to this comment on a spiritual level

[@Nilguiri]

Do you believe in a god or gods?

[@taken_over3416]

Nilguir that’s not what I meant when I said that

[@Nilguiri]

+taken over I wasn't talking to you and that is not what I asked. Also, I don't know what it means to "relate to something on a spiritual level". That is meaningless, isn't it? What do you mean, exactly.

[@taken_over3416]

Nilguiri it was meaningless. Sorry I thought it was me bc I didn’t really see the connection to the original comment until now.

[@You_work_tomorrow]

My imaginary friend was myself, I’d imagine there was a whole team of me’s and we’d all take turns being me and like if it was a test day the me who is best at that test would be me, and we’d always argue about who gets to eat food and then one day I just forgot about it

[@jonathanwilliams5384]

You've got a lot of starving partners to feed lol

[@deshawn2326]

Naruto much? lol 👍🏾

[@thedeterminedchild7835]

Damn it! You killed the haru that can read

[@Shenron557]

Yea, reminds me also of Naruto :D

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

You won. You're the best you!

[@BusterBuizel]

My imaginary friends became original characters in my writings lol. They really helped me get into writing and as of now, after ten years of amateur writing and multiple original characters, I’m ready to write a full on novel.

[@IceMetalPunk]

I'm pretty sure we fiction writers are just people with many imaginary friends in an imaginary world XD

[@spinnis]

I'm pretty sure amateur literature is oversaturated

[@gideonjones5712]

BusterBuizel my first real characters have bwcome almost like imaginary friends. I'll just be doing things and then imagine how they would act feel in the same situation. It actually really helps make the characters more 3 dimensional.

[@thatnekotrapbitch]

Me too

[@kafelkan1482]

I am actually determined to do the same for my imaginary friend too, once I finish my current project.

[@jamesm3657]

The imaginary friend is one who always supports you and never betrays you. Sounds like a friend worth having!

[@snowqueen24]

Yeah, that is true!😊😁

[@zeromailss]

Poor imaginary friend... They are forgotten once used

[@MattJammer]

MeowAlien にゃあエイリアン BING BONG!!!!

[@James-pb7kr]

Like Banette?

[@raulratte9732]

I don't remember Banette.

[@allykat5899]

Mimzy Smiles fosters home for imaginary friends much

[@allykat5899]

Mimzy Smiles i know

[@GammaProtogolin]

I still have mine and I’m 17. They are the only things keeping me going.

[@nikag7732]

Same.

[@kourtney.333]

Doomsdaywillcome can you actually see them, hear them, and feel them?

[@servantgeorge1700]

Doomsdaywillcome (Yes it will...). You must be 18 now (a grownup). Have you forgotten your friend(s): I hope so, it becomes more difficult to rid ourselves of a thing that (we think) is the only thing that keeps us going. Becoming dependent on a real person is not good, and worse is a imaginary person. I known grown ups that have invisible friends that pop up when they want to pop up: they name these spiritual guides and believe they are some type of angels, but they are actually the opposite. A friend of mine stated that his spiritual friend looked like a teletubby (harmless looking 'demons in disguise' that will eventually lead the wrong way once they gain your total trust: same thing with people that claim to see their dead relatives (this is what keeps them going; all the way to that fiery inferno).

[@nomnom2969]

@@servantgeorge1700 Lol, they're neither demon nor angel, they are imaginary. Your brain can do pretty weird stuff, no supernatural phenomena needed to explain these things.

[@servantgeorge1700]

@@nomnom2969 That is true, the brain can do some pretty amazing things, and yes 'weird' if you are not mentally healthy. The mind is a different thing (more spiritual than a physical brain). Though I am not here to educate you, though one day soon you will be aware of, and see the difference between an unhealthy brains imagination and the existence of real demons. Secular science simply cannot test the spiritual with mere-man-made-mechanisms (though they know that the spiritually unexplainable is there).

[@CoordinatedCarry]

However if you see the giant pink elephant made of cotton candy then you can worry.

[@mirjam3553]

Scrolled down looking for this! :)

[@jodinha4225]

Dont tell the lawers

[@AtarahDerek]

Worry? Most of us would run up to him and shout, "Bing Bong! You're alive! I thought you'd been forgotten like a skeleton without an ofrenda!" Yeah, Pixar loves to mess people up.

[@aresjones4761]

What about a green elephant drinking coffee? Is that okay?

[@StarrTheWitch]

@@AtarahDerek i was thinking of Bing Bong too

[@lekiscool]

I feel that as an adult I internalized my "imaginary friend." I noticed as I got older the conversation I would have out loud in order to process situation became the internal voice that I engage with.

[@Hito--chan]

I believe that imaginary friends have great power to help people of any age deal with some mental illnesses, depressive ones especially. I'm 27 and have two imaginary friends that help me deal with the depression side of bipolar among other things, having someone to shout at you to stop it every time self loathing or suicidal thoughts start to creep into your mind or someone to keep you company when you want nothing to do with the outside world is a godsend and I was a complete mess half the time before I discovered the idea and took the time to try it out. I keep it all in my head though, i don't talk out loud to or interact with them physically or anything like that.

[@InevitableTruth247]

*gasp* fellow tulpamancer?

[@Hito--chan]

Yup

[@InevitableTruth247]

Hello hello!

[@Hito--chan]

Hello indeed, you use your tulpa(s) to deal with things as well or are they just for companionship?

[@InevitableTruth247]

Companionship, but they assist me in activities and whatnot; but I’m a persistent procrastinator (Which I never had a problem with before) and no matter how much the plea I always stand out on top lmao

[@emmethefangirl8785]

Alright, I'm not insane for having a imaginary friend as a teen, yet I seem to have poor social skills, and I only have one friend. Well the large vocabulary and creativeness was correct.

[@me-hk4ro]

Omg No you're not the only one 😢 I'm literally 15 I'm so embarrassed to say this but I've been bullied and I was like you know what! Idc let me have an imaginary friend and that actually made feel good

[@yankedhonor4281]

@@me-hk4ro its not that bad i have 3 imaginary friends and they still with me til now

[@me-hk4ro]

@@yankedhonor4281 Lol cool mine change over time 😂

[@Wittyx]

...You're all fine. I still have mine at 35.

[@altaic9202]

Yep. That’s me.

[@a3person]

20 and still have an imaginary friend since like 5. He's a big lovable dragon (as shown by my profile picture). He likes to cuddle and we talk about our day and magic stuff before we sleep c: he also likes to stop by in dreamland from time to time :D he makes dreaming so fun.

[@jodinha4225]

a3person ur a third person furry

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

That sounds super fun, I wanna know more about him. What's his name?

[@IceMetalPunk]

Man, I feel so boring. All this talk of pink elephants and dragons... my imaginary friend was just a woman xD

[@a3person]

His name is Lathanial

[@lisahellier5301]

a3person best imaginary friend ever

[@crashingdown6814]

I thought i had a imaginary friend when i was little.. I was shocked when it turned out its actually my little sister and actually real

[@mrwaffleman8732]

Crashing Down plot twist

[@lisahellier5301]

Crashing Down that sands stooped

[@user-mj4or8sh3g]

lol

[@kenjix1794]

Well you must have been a real genuis👏👏👏

[@MaoDev]

nice hentai plot

[@themadowl9224]

I've had different imaginary worlds since I can remember. They usually change after 2 or 3 years, but I still interact with them a lot,even though I'm in highschool. I also take characters from these worlds and place them in situations I'm not comfortable with to make me feel more safe. I've never talked out loud to any of them though, it's always been more of a telepathy thing. 😂 Even though it isn't real I find it very helpful, because I always have something to do and it helps me plan stuff for social situations and deal with bad memories l, because I can just relive similar situations there, but make them have a happy ending. I was also diagnosed with major depression, social anxiety and ADD and these worlds even help with those. Ofc one thing is the urge self-harm and being able to avoid it by talking to the different people, but another thing is that after the worst phase of my depression I felt(/feel) like I didn't have a personality anymore. By doing stuff in my world I am able to rebuild it in a "secure environment" - I think that's the best word -without being scared. AND, something that's not as serious: I can incorporate fandom headcanons.~

[@ruddthreesnestedboxes]

the Mad Owl Damn...I thought I was only one who did that! Wow.

[@emmilytheengineer]

ruddthree me too

[@ichmagschokolade5328]

Me too and I‘m way past high school

[@MI-gt8co]

Im not alone!

[@MI-gt8co]

But not the major depression

[@kevflon]

What about me? I didnt have imaginary friends, I just imagined that I was an alien and made up my entire back story until I actually started to believe it!

[@Liusila]

kevflon Care to share some of that story?

[@aarOuOn]

I used to have a friend who convinced himself he was a werewolf. Kids are strange

[@graphenepyromaniac2446]

@@aarOuOn Kids have tons of imaginations, they aren't strange. They just didn't know the true nature of real life and didn't really know the gap line between real life and fantasy.

[@aarOuOn]

@@graphenepyromaniac2446 thats strange

[@graphenepyromaniac2446]

@@aarOuOn ?

[@FerrariKing]

Once my cousin and I pretended to have an imaginary friend to annoy our parents. We thought their reaction was funny.

[@coolraccoon64]

I didn’t have an imaginary friend until the 6th grade. I’m going to be in high school and he is still with me. He helps me with my anxiety.

[@atheistghost4158]

Do you still have him? What's he like?

[@coolraccoon64]

@@atheistghost4158 nah rot really anymore, I still think about him, he was just a nice guy lol. I think he isn’t with me anymore because I more became him over time.

[@BothHands1]

So toys count as imaginary friends? I always thought it only meant completely invisible entities that kids talked to. Yeah, I definitely talked to my toys, and slept with them under my pillow, and they had super powers and stuff, like all my beanie babies. I used to play with them with my brother, and but we'd mostly talk for them, and tell each other what we imagined each beanie baby to be thinking or doing. But I never had just an invisible thing that I made to sit at the table for dinner and talk to or anything. So that still counts? If so, that makes me think that only 50% of kids having imaginary friends is really low.

[@lizerdspherex]

Yeah, the older "kids" call them waifus and husbandos.

[@solarshado]

Not *necessarily* the same thing. But also not necessarily *not* the same thing...

[@grimwatcher]

Or god

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Your waifu is trash!

[@MrDulguN]

Most people in this world call them "God".

[@LecherousLizard]

Hey! Keep my waifu out of this!

[@yaranaika8314]

I'm 13 and I have an imaginary friend rn! My imaginary friend is a boy at my age named CJ and he's really kind. We started talking a few days ago! we only talk at night time before I go to sleep and we talk about my depression, social anxiety and stress about stuff. I haven't been in school for almost a year and I think I feel lonely in a way since I never went out, I was planning on switching school but the new school didn't reply so I have to go to the same old school again which makes me really nervous and stressed. I don't have any friends at my old school anymore I only have one friend but she has moved and switched school and often can't hangout :( I enjoy having someone to listen to my problems even if they're just imaginary, it feels real so I always feel better after shedding some tears and sleeping til' the next day!

[@Karishma_Unspecified]

So how's the new school going, love? Does CJ still talk to you?

[@Laezar1]

Now you make me wish I had an imaginary friend. Cause my social skills sucks xD Should have practiced!

[@letao12]

It's not too late to start! Let me introduce Billy to you, he loves whatever hobbies you love.

[@emmilytheengineer]

I had imaginary friends and my social skills still suck

[@nayandusoruth2468]

I had an imaginary friend, to the point i imagine entire universes to interact with, it didn't help, i still hiss at the sight of other humans...

[@26yd1]

HawkingN Guess an imaginary friend and universes to interact with is slightly different :D It's probably a very introvert thing of people like us that were told to be "in their world" for their hole childhood. I had no worlds of imaginary friends but things with similar cognitive functions, and today I'm quite fascinated by abstract thinking, ultra-futuristic and fractal structures, cyberpunk and far away utopian science-based futures like there are high chances you are too.

[@nancymencke503]

Laezar so that’s why I have the social skills of a snail

[@andyroidify]

how does her shirt not have a loan shark on it?

[@Aeleas]

I was looking for left shark.

[@Da_Prinny]

I still have an imaginary friend because no one else talks to me dood

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Are they a penguin?

[@lNFINlTEx]

Does he explode when thrown around?

[@AngelValis]

Sounds like someone needs to call a Prinny instructor... You forgot to end your sentence with, "dood."

[@suhassuhas486]

Hey u got on prinny KZbin friend.

[@nicklewis470]

Bingbong ;^;

[@Lucylle]

WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT BINGBONG!!!

[@Nico-nt4id]

No not BINGBONG! 😭

[@ewwmorons]

Bing bong bing bong

[@tessa1935]

🥺

[@jessicawinters9420]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@bigsukesakurai]

All I can remember from my childhood is that I would adopt characters from the cartoons on TV as my friends. I just pretended that I'd go on adventures with them all day and be a part of their crew or whatever. Then I realised that maybe that was because I grew up alone, moving from one place to another often, never really making friends that last. Wow, how lonely that was.

[@colda.f.238]

I'm so bad at making friends that I didn't even have an imaginary one

[@RosheenQuynh]

I'm 25 and I still have imaginary friends. It also helps that I'm a writer, too. As an only child, it helped - still does help - me cope with loneliness to an extent.

[@joshuatharp491]

Thanx 4 sharing

[@muscari5482]

I'm a teenager and I still have one. they appear mostly when I can't pay attention in class

[@Twelfie12]

My imaginary friend is all I have and the only one who understands me 😢

[@Killvoid13]

I had two when i was 4. They were cartoon characters that lived in the old sewing machine upstairs. They would wait for me to get home from preschool. The were gone when we moved from that house a year later. Whats weird is that i can still remember them vividly.

[@analoganonymous6878]

When I was about six years old, I used to have an imaginary friends. They were the objects in my bathroom. I used to always talk to them.

[@larimatolaganon4946]

I found mine turned more into a conscious as I grew older. Even to this day I internally 'ask' them a question and 'listen' to their reply. I also found 'they' make good internal sounding boards to bounce ideas around in my brain. It's like giving personality to different thought processes.

[@Delishamills45]

I still have one at 23 years old Because of loneliness

[@Nilguiri]

I find that hard to believe! You seem delightful.

[@AgentSteffi]

i don't know if i had one. i know that i always talk to myself. about all kind of stuff, but like i would be interviewed or something

[@unit-square8193]

Same bro and I turn 17 in a couple months.

[@GingerCaddy]

Whoa whoa whoa..... a little kid pouring tea for a giant pink elephant? Are we talking imaginary friends or an alcoholic child?

[@PandoraFoxxBurlesque]

A few years ago I was on the bus and as soon as I sat down the kid behind me started screaming and crying, and his mum had to explain that I'd sat on the poor lad's imaginary friend. I didn't really know what to do other than move seats and tell him that I was going to call my friend - the invisible doctor - to come and help his friend. Still makes me chuckle thinking about that kid 😂

[@Malidictus]

To the best of my experience, the whole "imaginary friend" thing only seems to crop up in the US. I've never had one, never knew anyone who had one, nor did I even conceive of the idea of making up a "friend." It was actually rather jarring watching US television way back when, and seeing people talk about "imaginary friends" because I had no concept of what that was even supposed to be. Honestly, that sounds like more of a learned habit than an intuitive one to me - something society puts into kids' heads as as much as (not more so than) they come up with this very specific idea independently over and over again.

[@NessaOfDorthonion]

If it was a learned habit, wouldn't more kids have imaginary friends in the US then? Maybe not all kids, but it would be much more common. I'm sure there's people in the US that haven't heard of imaginary friends either

[@Malidictus]

That depends on what you mean by "more," I guess. As compared to what? The US certainly seems to have more imaginary friend cases than I've run into or heard about here. I mean, kids here DO talk to their toys, but I'm not aware of talking to nothing. Less of an imaginary friend, more of an inanimate friend.

[@AtarahDerek]

In that case, the Floor is Lava is also strictly an American thing. America has always valued creativity and storytelling. That's why we do have imaginary friends and retreat into imaginary worlds. They're our muses.

[@geyaneya1498]

AtarahDerek not true at all. I'm European and I've had, and a lot of my friends had, imaginary friend and we always used to play the floor is lava. You have creative people all over, it's not about which country you're from lol

[@AtarahDerek]

gjn jjbgjmg I based my conclusion on the original comment. If only American kids have imaginary friends, then it stands to reason that only American kids play the Floor is Lava. If imaginary friends are more universal, then so is the concept of leaping across the furniture because the carpet and linoleum have magically become molten rock.

[@Halistree]

Brit: "Many kids simply forget about their companions when they get older" Me: "BING BONG!!!!"

[@delph7865]

I am in middle school.I have so many imaginary friends that I sometimes have to say sorry for forgetting to say good night to them.They are so good.They madr me feel real and if you have an imaginary friend then you cant suicide.I made my friends stop cutting himself this way

[@chloesxch4rm913]

How do you get one?

[@atheistghost4158]

@@chloesxch4rm913 you make one. You just imagine yourself talking to somebody.

[@rob_4227]

My mom says I had my “kids” as imaginary friends when I was 4 or 5. My parents divorced when I was two. As long as I can remember, I’ve had a desire to have a family of my own because my family unit was never complete. I’m thinking that my imaginary friends known as my “kids” is the first outward manifestation of my feelings to have a family of my own.

[@Lumpiluk]

Could it also be a cultural thing? The first time I ever heard of regular children actually having imaginary friends was through American TV shows in my teenage years, if I remember correctly. Or could it be, because I and most people I knew back then were religious at the time, that that was kind of a substitute for imaginary friends? Or maybe it just never came up in conversations? (I grew up in Germany.)

[@SethMacMillan]

Apparently, that may be the truth. A good few commentors have also mentioned their first experience of "imaginary companions" was through American TV series. That's fascinating! If only there was an idea of what aspect of culture may invite such imagination. In my mind, I'm wondering if it may be dependent on the emphasis of collectivism or individualism.

[@Lumpiluk]

Thanks, I haven't seen those comments! A quick search on Google Scholar about imaginary friends, culture, and countries didn't yield any relevant results, but I'll keep looking.

[@eevilauntie]

Lukas Stratmann I was wondering about this too. I'm from Finland and only learned about imaginary friends from (non-Finnish) tv and books.

[@crazyth1ngs600]

Thank you! I'd been wondering whether I'd just never met anyone with an imaginary friend or whether it's actually a cultural thing.^^ Would be great to find some research on this. At least it seems that other people have been curious about this, too. I found a post on Reddit, and one on Researchgate about this topic (which both don't really give a lot of data and digress into other aspects of cultural differences very fast, so I won't post the links.) Their data on the percentage of "imaginary-friend-havers" comes from a BBC article and a Japanese study: around 10% in Japan compared to 45% in the UK and 65% in the US. Well, according to this, imaginary companions might simply be way less common in continental Europe or Asia than in the US and/or the Americas.

[@frikativos]

I am from Spain and same story here. I woudn't know about imaginary friends if it weren't because of Ameican TV shows. It is just so weird. I wish I could know why it is so common in America.

[@chrysalizubeth88]

I always imagined my favorite fictional characters playing with me.

[@Arahh-p1v]

Same with me either.See my comment on this vid to know more what happened to me :)

[@dawsonisawesome6787]

My imaginaring peridot from Steven universe

[@ellamery0917]

I would honestly rather keep up with my imaginary friend than to be friends with a real person cuz my imaginary friend was the only one loyal when all the ones that I thought were my friends left me with no reason

[@atheistghost4158]

What's your imaginary friend like?

[@Clouditivity]

My imaginary friend was a black cat who could talk and a video game alien.

[@Jemini4228]

Some adult authors say they feel their characters are like imaginary friends. Just ones they choose to share with the world. :)

[@heronb.4965]

does talking to myself makes me have an imaginary friend?

[@midnightlewolf8339]

Heron Barbosa I have this question

[@kerenhosanna9317]

I think no.

[@zajimoviccch6639]

Depends, how do u talk w urself?

[@MrRedwires]

Fitting to this topic would be Tulpas - Basically, intentionally "grown" imaginary companions for ... Basically anyone. They're not a very known phenomenon, and it would be cool to hear something about them from you guys - if you've heard of them, of course.

[@Alexaflohr]

So, doing a cursory amount of research and not having ever heard about this before, it strikes me as essentially the same phenomena as creating imaginary friends, except with people doing so intentionally.

[@MrRedwires]

Alexander Abrams-Flohr Yeah, that's... Pretty much it, at least the basics. It's a bit more involved and slightly more permanent, but I wouldn't say that the mechanism is very different from young imaginary friends.

[@120percentcool]

Basically, which makes me question this video because some people start a tulpa and literally drive themselves crazy, so I *know* an imaginary friend can definitely be a bad thing. Maybe that had 'dormant' DID that was aggravated by it, but there's definitely more here than imaginary friend = good.

[@MrRedwires]

NIGHTPON3 In my experience, going "crazy" because of Tulpas is something I haven't come across yet. I've come across people with traumatic experiences developing Tulpas to help them, and most other, normal people who develop a Tulpa really don't have problems. Of course, my experiences aren't perfect evidence, but I can confidently tell you that it doesn't go wrong very often.

[@dragonboyjgh]

The tulpa creation process is more or less deliberately believing in your imaginary friend so hard you delude yourself into a psychosis that they're real, with the goal of full autonomy and complete sensory hallucinations. It's not something for anyone not more or less already trying to drive themself insane to worry about. Saying that imaginary friends are bad because Tulpas can sometimes (not even reliably) be bad is like saying water is bad because if you intentionally try to induce water intoxication you can die.

[@Mystic_chaos_420]

Welp... All of my imaginary friends were characters from something that already existed

[@unit-square8193]

Same

[@mustardsfire22]

That Bing Bong reference at the end gave me unexpected feels.

[@ellien352]

When I was five I had a imaginary friend and her name was Izzy she was a huskey and she talked to me all the time then she said she had to move on because i was "losing my imagination" that was in 2014 and in 2018 she appeared to me again and told me she was coming back because I still had a imagination and she did but now my friends say I'm weird because I'm talking to a dog that's not there so yeah

[@ryandaley1402]

So if I see a pink elephant made of cotton candy I'm ok, right? As long as there is a child pouring it tea

[@TheQueen1015]

My younger brother had an imaginary friend. It was cute until he started telling me how he wasn’t imaginary and how him and his family died in a fire in our house and I later noticed burn marks on the hardwood floor in my room.. he stopped talking about his imaginary friend when we moved to a new house

[@justanotherladevoyee8953]

Asia Nae That is horrifying.

[@abundantharmony]

Immolation would leave more than a few "burn marks" on the floor.

[@mariacargille1396]

Having imaginary friends translated seemlessly into having lots of characters running around. It definitely fed my love of writing.

[@hehe3133]

My Imaginary Friend help me gain confidence. (I had low self esteem since i was bullied) her name was Zoe and she had red hair she did not had many friends she was also 5 but she liked me and gave me compliments and saying "You can do it!!" But once I got friends she slowly faded away. I wish everyone meets a Zoe in their life!

[@vjbibia]

I never had one, i've just always talked to myself outloud pretending im talking to someone else. I'm extremely talkative when I'm by myself lmao

[@MrBagel-og9kf]

The real reason Kids also have imaginary friends: They don't have any people or friends to be around that much, their parents are busy, they have not had a single sibling yet.. They are lonely and bored, it so happens to be the make a friend, they see the great friend, and hang out with the one who isn't there..

[@neutron8939]

I started to create my imaginary friend when I was 8 years old, "He" used to be good and kind, giving me advices. His appearance is blank, white, very tall and covered with smoke, voice is deep and Charming, his name is kind of childish, 丁丁*ding ding. But now, I am 12, I'm afraid of him, he follows me in my dreams.. He even started to.... Touch me, I'm scared. Needless to say, yesterday around 1 am, I feel his aura, sinister, I did not look back and quickly close my eyes and sleep, and even told myself not to open my eyes or else I'll get 'killed'. Today, my mirror *big ones, suddenly fell and broken inside my room alone. I do not feel safe at all. Please help me, I'm scared.

[@lmaoowo3947]

Ignore him and don’t think about him don’t pay attention to him or anything he dose

[@texaswilliam]

Santa isn't real?! How am I going to break this to my son?

[@jodinha4225]

texaswilliam painfully

[@YoutubeAdministrator]

You stop giving him gifts on christmas and tell him.

[@UmVtCg]

Well, he is in his 40's now, I think he is almost ready to handle it. Let him sit on Santa's lap for one more Chrismas. Next year will be the year you tell him.

[@aresjones4761]

HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THIS

[@danicarasalingam7883]

you didnt know? Who gave the presents then? Where did the presents come from??? Or was that supposed to be a joke?..

[@mysteepulcine2510]

My 10 year old son has hundreds of ""invisible drones" that follow him around, talk to him, and defend him from siths. He's acknowledged that they are not real, and it seems to do him more good than harm.

[@AdleisioCefnforDolphin]

I want to know where I can get that shirt. xD

[@Ratryoshka]

i remember having a box full of imaginary tiny people in elementary school. the box is basically their town & i named it Tinyworld or something and their fandoms were all my OCs & comic series.

[@madsdaqueen4214]

I used to have an imaginary friend named Alex and when I was 8 we got in a fight and now we’re not friends anymore 😂😂😂

[@WicketEngineering]

awwwww

[@lmaoowo3947]

What’s the reason you two got into a fight? 😂😂

[@brendanotoole5871]

I knew this kid who always went on crazy adventures with his stuffed tiger.

[@winsuma8253]

I didn't have an imaginary friend, but I had an imaginary sister.

[@xxfiredragonxx7771]

My imaginary friends left me because they thought it was time for me to grow up and forget about them.

[@shirawise2318]

I never had an imaginary friend just different stories that I would be part of to entertain myself. The stories would change about every three weeks.

[@NessaOfDorthonion]

I had an imaginary friend when I was maybe 6, his name was Hiloko (not sure where the name came from). He didn't really look like anything, he was just a gray silhouette that I talked to sometimes. He had a house in my grandma's large backyard and I walked him home sometimes. Not sure when I stopped playing with my imaginary friend, but I do still remember having one.

[@arthurobrien7424]

I've been told you can meet lots of imaginary friends on this "facebook" thing.

[@jl86_]

What's a Facebook? Is it this spyware ran by our "benevolent" lizard dictator filled with uninteresting and annoying generic people?

[@hjabalexbncv]

Never had an imaginary friend but I still have good social skills

[@mtf_nine_tailed_fox385]

To be Honest Most Introverted people or have autism talks to their imaginary friend Not only kids. Trust me! I've did that when I was 17

[@graphenepyromaniac2446]

What? I'm an introvert but I didn't have any imaginery friend now.

[@oldcowbb]

i'm so socially akward that i don't even have imaginary friends

[@guys-in9vd]

i never had an imaginary friend … i am lonely ...

[@WicketEngineering]

You should make one. It's actually easy for me. Just talk into mid air and it feels like somebody is listening.

[@guys-in9vd]

​@@WicketEngineering im shy to do something like this, im 11 and my parents would be worried about me.

[@WicketEngineering]

@@guys-in9vd Just whisper in your room at night.

[@guys-in9vd]

@@WicketEngineering idk, im just talking to myself like me 1: hi, where you thinking about FRESHAIRtm ? i you were then call 555 555 555 me 2: NO!! i was not THINKING ABOUT AiRrR ( me 2 realises that he's floating in space ) *thinks about air and calls 555 555 555* me 1: thanks for buying our product me 3: your air sir !! me 2: *chokes and dies* real me: hahahahaha, poor guy

[@Flameandfireclan]

I had one when I was a kid. I called him R. He was a letter with rabbit ears

[@girlcrazyforj-popculture5295]

I m of 23 now and I still have an imaginary friend. 🤣

[@atheistghost4158]

What is your imaginary friend like?

[@White927]

@@atheistghost4158 Probably inner demon.

[@cynloh2302]

My friend and I used to "borrow" each other's imaginary friends for playdates 😂

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

I think I'm going to create an imaginary girlfriend.

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

@Rand0 Roblox Mine dumped me. How's yours going?

[@chloesxch4rm913]

How do you make one?

[@gaillewis5472]

I've heard writers have oodles of imaginary friends and that they make great characters.

[@bacon.cheesecake]

I didn't even have imaginary friends.

[@clare2385]

Bacon CheeseCake I only had my own imaginary castle I'd return to every night. Never even had something close to an imaginary friend...

[@morganelliott6165]

I pretended to have an imaginary friend because I thought that's what was expected...

[@wmarclocher]

As a child my mother told me my imaginary friends were actually my spiritual guides and I should listen to them for guidance. Later my older sister, who was a fundamentalist christian, told me they where demons and I should never speak to them again or mention their names or they would hurt or kill me. Of course I now know they were always imaginary, but my mother and sister still talk to theirs and insist they are real.

[@danicarasalingam7883]

My father said that imaginary friends could be demons and they could make you do bad things, like murder or hurt someone and other kinds of bad things

[@taibhsear71]

Thanks, that was very informative. I've been struggling with this with my daughter. My wife (a psychologist) didn't explain it very well but basically told me it was normal and not to worry, which just made me worry more, lol.

[@subhankarnath6181]

I am 12 years now ,i have a imaginary friend from 10 years.Her name is sweetie, she is younger than me

[@subhankarnath6181]

I am back i still have her

[@tuongthoainguyen7830]

I have some imaginary friends (Yes, I HAVE) to reduce stress after the hectic life, and drawing them out is just something incredible to do.

[@rainy5517]

Same here! I wish they were real. I want them to hug me and I want to feel loved, but that's just not reality. I'm an adult and still have them. I've had imaginary friends when I was a kid, but now I got new ones that I've grown really really attached to. They keep me going and they calm me down, when I'm having a breakdown before bed. If I could just have a plushie version of them, my life would be complete

[@atheistghost4158]

You should really look up tulpas. It's not as uncommon as you think.

[@NewMessage]

Wait.. Dwight's not real? I.. I need to sit down.

[@babyhag666]

im 12 and I have MANY imaginary friends. I thought I was alone... but now I realize im normal! thank you for making this video. it made me feel so much better. Yes, it's true I am Very creative my mom says and as well as when im stressed my imaginary friends are always there for me when im home alone. I am an only child and again, thank you!

[@kizofio]

Tulpas FTW!

[@videobirdshow]

Kid: *has an imaginary friend* Parents: let’s move away

[@PsychoVdude13x]

Adults call them tulpas.

[@chistinelane]

My imaginary friend kept me from jumping off a tall tree in the middle of the woods

[@max20252]

are you sure about this? I've never had or met someone who have had imaginary friends :/

[@SethMacMillan]

If you didn't grow up in the United Kingdom or the United States, that may not be unusual. It appears as though this is may be a culturally bound phenomenon.

[@Gothic_Analogue]

SethMacMillan I live in the UK and I do not recall /anyone/ in my social groups ever mentioning such things. I have only ever heard it mentioned on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and that cartoon from ages agone.

[@zEropoint68]

hi. and now you know one of us. do you have any questions?

[@Gothic_Analogue]

zEropoint68 Yes, why are you different? (Just in case it wasn’t obvious, the above was sarcasm)

[@necrisro]

This, Romanian here, imaginary friends have never ever been a thing here (unless it was a serious mental disorder like schizophrenia) there might be something wrong with the USA, or something that has to do with culture.

[@dylansimmons799]

I personified my legos and created whole words, in which I narrated the whole story as I came up with it and even now when I look at certain block arranged in patterns or shapes I remember the story and actions taken by the characters I created. I never talked to them though.

[@seklay]

thank god for imaginary friends

[@austinhernandez2716]

Dartanian it's an oxymoron, it's a joke

[@austinhernandez2716]

Dartanian that's part of the joke

[@akane3549]

I used to have an imaginary friends when I was 5 or 6 years old. One is a dancing fire and a talking moon.

[@unblooded]

That's all i have

[@frozenjune83]

Florian Matel Awe, I'll be your friend... I got neither.

[@unblooded]

Frozen June Mine just ask me to burn stuff

[@ZamanSiddiqui]

Florian Matel LOL. Just like Ralph Wiggum's imaginary friend.

[@GarlicGrinder9]

Mine never left, and im an adult! I believe that its very healthy for adults to do this if they arent good at making friends, like me. I STILL use her to offload stress, afterall its not like you can just "deal with it."

[@atheistghost4158]

Any chance you could describe what the experience is like?

[@sogerc1]

Most grownass people around me still have imaginary friends, they visit them usually on Sundays and talk to them before they go to bed.

[@lol...]

Hahaha yes

[@RosheenQuynh]

Yeah, that doesn't count.

[@sogerc1]

RoseOfTheNight4444: why wouldn't it count? An imaginary friend is an imaginary friend no matter how many people's imaginary friend it is. Naughty Hotdog: so nothing really, I don't mind if they have that imaginary friend if it doesn't affect me, I just find it a kinda embarassing that a grownup still believes in fairy tales and even pays to be in church. Although I pay to watch movies so I guess that is similar in a way.

[@RosheenQuynh]

sogerc1 Because only atheists view God as imaginary because they've seen no proof to believe He is real. He wouldn't be imaginary to anyone if everyone were Christians.

[@sogerc1]

RoseOfTheNight4444: yeah, you said exactly nothing. Just because everyone believes in something, that doesn't make it real.

[@Meravokas]

I'm not afraid to say that I have a bit of an imaginary friend from a Fennic fox plus I got a little over a year ago for my birthday, I'm now 23. I also have anxiety which might help the factor of having her around. I don't really talk to her out loud, but when my mind get's over active at night she's there to comfort me still. And with out any relationship to speak of it's some level of comfort I don't really have otherwise.

[@youteubakount4449]

Funny, I never hear of imaginary friends in Eastern countries. Is it a western specific problem?

[@Nilguiri]

What about the 1.6 billion Muslims, a large proportion of whom live in "Eastern countries"?

[@frikativos]

I am from Spain and I never heard about imaginary friends either other than on TV.

[@youteubakount4449]

Nilguiri What about them Nilgiri? Careful, don't cut yourself with all those edges.

[@Gothic_Analogue]

I wouldn’t know, as a person from the UK I have only ever seen it mentioned as a real phenomena on television shows.

[@youteubakount4449]

Which is why I'm curious about who really has imaginary friends...

[@parttime_kpopstan8061]

I didn't have one...I had a whole kingdom of plushies, all with their own name, personality and role xDD

[@gamingstation4497]

I’m 11 and I have a imaginary friend named gabby and I fell in love with her and my friend told me she wasn’t real and I cried but that’s not the Roblox the problem is I make imaginary friends of people that still exist

[@JazmineInjection]

I kind of miss my imaginary friend. Even though when I think about it, my imaginary friend was just a less scary version of the rabbit dude in Donnie Darko