Imaginary friends

[Oma]

Reading on the toy thread that plants DS had a imaginary friend I was wondering if anyone else's children did .
When Josh was very small about 3 he had a friend called Neknue who had a sister called Nephatie and two brothers called Eye and Baby he said this Neknue played with his toys and was see through and wore a long t-shirt but had hair like fizzy coco cola so we assume he was black by the description , when my DD asked him about Neknue he said he was 4 when he died because he jumped into a deep pool when his mummy told him not too banged his head and drowned , DD asked him if she could see him but Josh said when DD or SIL came upstairs Neknue disappeared , he said Neknue would wake him up at night to play but he would tell him to go away till morning . The funniest thing happened one day , SIL was in the bathroom and Josh shouted Daddy Neknue is hear SIL was so freaked out he locked the door and shouted for DD 😁 as DD said if it was a ghost locking the bathroom door wasn't going to do much good 😊
When Josh was about 4 he came downstairs and said Neknue wouldn't be coming to play any more as he had to go away , He never talked about him again after that day

[aggie]

I am told that I had an imaginary family of 10 children . DD3 had an imaginary friend , bit of a pain leaving room for it in the car

[Gemini]

Gosh Oma, how spooky. I had to laugh about SIL locking the bathroom door

None of mine reported imaginary friends. I didn't have one but I don't know why as I was often lonely, I could have done with one!

[Shemadee]

DS had two imaginary friends - Gary and Bum. We had to lay up places at the table and they had to be assisted on and off buses! I tried to change Bum to Boom but he wasn't having any of it! Fortunately they went to live in Australia when DS was about 4 yrs old. He also had a phase where he was really interested in the army and would only answer to the names "Uncle Mick" or "Granddad" which could get embarrassing when out in public. One little girl insisted on wearing her fancy dress costume for over a year - a cardboard box with a clock face on and she would only answer to "Six o'clock" so it could have been worse!

[Daisy]

Children do have the most amazing imaginations!

My DS1 had 2 imaginary friends - Froggy Frog and Susie. We never knew much about them - they were quite private friends, and then after a while they quietly left our house never to be seen or heard from again!


Oma - Josh's friends must have seemed very real for your SIL to lock himself in the bathroom!

[Grauntie Mag]

I had an imaginary fairy friend called Fairy Barley. We went everywhere together. Even now when I see a dandelion seed head in the air I am reminded of her.
The GCs believe that I have fairies in my garden and I must remember to get a fairy door for my tree.

[Daisy]

GM - how sweet that your GCs believe you have fairies in my garden. I hadn't heard about fairy doors for trees until recently, now they seem to be very popular. Perhaps the housing shortage has hit the fairy population too, and they are having to find new places to live.

Planning control is stepping in to limit fairy doors in the wild, so garden versions will become increasingly vital to our fairy population.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-30687171

[Oma]

Daisy from a baby Josh would laugh and smile at the wall and when he was just toddling he would go over and it looked like he was talking to someone , he can't remember now but it was very odd at the time . SIL is a wimp😀

[Gemini]

Oma, Josh is obviously very sensitive to spirits, or whatver we may call them.
He may have grown out of this when he left babyhood, or it may be something which will always be around him.

Shem, I can understand why you wanted to change Bums name!!

[Shemadee]

Strange the variety and imagination used in picking names! DS was always happy to write factual essays but never knew how to start anything fictional.

[Oma]

Gem my DD was the same when she was small . One day when she was 3 she kicked up a right fuss she didn't want to get on this bus , screamed her head off said it was going to crash strange thing was it did crash several people hurt only minor injury but she was right . There were lots off odd things like that happened but again she grew out of it

[Daisy]

Oma - I've read somewhere that small children can have (or it seems that way) a sort of 'extra sensory' memory. When DG1 was a toddler she often seemed to know things without being told and had no way of knowing that we could explain. I always used to say she'd been here before, then I read that article. I wish I could remember where.