have you ever created an imaginary friend?

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So I've got this mental collection of imaginary boyfriends that I can call up and then either pick up where I left off or go back and re-edit it again. It's also something for me to focus on as I am drifting off to sleep, especially if whatever else is on my mind is stressing me out. I allow myself to imagine very specific details about the whole encounter, not just the sex although that serves the immediate need, but also what a relationship might have been like and how that would have let me down a different path than the one I have walked.

I sort of do this, except I do a lot more than imagine scenarios. I go so far as to make up back stories, conflicts, and entire plots. One of mine occurs in an alternate reality, because this one wasn't interesting enough for me, I guess. I started writing them down when I realized how complex some of my stories had become. After I had written quite a lot, I finally confessed to TheBF what I had been doing and after much hand wringing, I finally let him read just one little chapter. He loved it so much I let him read a little more. He thinks I should publish it, but I don't know... it feels too personal to be something to open up to criticism.

I don't consider that to really be imaginary friend territory. I think that's just being really horny but having an active imagination, too.
 

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I think it kind of straddles the line, petite, but like I said I don't think it's becomes a problem unless it starts to interfere with reality. I know what you mean about the whole back story and plots, one of my imaginary bf scenarios got so convoluted that we apparently broke up, I haven't been by to "see" him in over a year. Once we moved to England and he got a role in a play on the West End, I hit a road block and didn't know where to go from there. I am sure he is happy though.

Writing it all down is an interesting thought. Glad your real partner was so cool about your mental vacations, or however you might describe it.
 

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Very true. I think the Jack Russell is actually attracted to your aunt's leg, or at least the aunt in some fashion, whereas I doubt earllogjam gets aroused by his pillow, but I could be wrong. :tongue:

Along the same train of thought, do Real Dolls count as imaginary friends? After all, most people give them imaginary personalities.

But Real Dolls are real! People giving them imaginary personalities doesn't change that. Imagine how many people would phase in and out of reality during sexual (& other) role play if it worked like that! It would be like living in a Philip Pullman novel. Or Doctor Who.
 

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Along the same train of thought, do Real Dolls count as imaginary friends? After all, most people give them imaginary personalities.
imaginary friends using props, like dolls or second message board accounts, is taking it to the next level. trying to make it more real.
 

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I think it kind of straddles the line, petite, but like I said I don't think it's becomes a problem unless it starts to interfere with reality. I know what you mean about the whole back story and plots, one of my imaginary bf scenarios got so convoluted that we apparently broke up, I haven't been by to "see" him in over a year. Once we moved to England and he got a role in a play on the West End, I hit a road block and didn't know where to go from there. I am sure he is happy though.

:lmao:

I died laughing reading this! :tongue:

That's excellent. Some relationships just reach an endpoint, don't they? :wink:

Writing it all down is an interesting thought. Glad your real partner was so cool about your mental vacations, or however you might describe it.

Oh Freud would have a field day with them. Apparently I'm not entertained enough with just kinky sex. I have to have kinky sex against a historically accurate background sometimes. There's one that was inspired by James Michener's Chesapeake and John Smith's diary, which I was reading at the time. Actually, it happens a lot with whatever I happen to be reading at the time, so it's not really that big of a mystery...

And who hasn't imagined pirates, huh? :biggrin1:

I'm a little weird.

But Real Dolls are real! People giving them imaginary personalities doesn't change that. Imagine how many people would phase in and out of reality during sexual (& other) role play if it worked like that! It would be like living in a Philip Pullman novel. Or Doctor Who.

Makes me wonder what it would be like to be one of the characters on the holodeck if they had any awareness of their existence. Reminds me of a movie I won't name because it would be a spoiler, and I don't wanna be that jerk.

But isn't the imaginary personality the part that matters when it comes to the imaginary friend? Just because someone attaches that imaginary personality to an existing tangible object doesn't mean that it's not also a "person" one imagines is a friend, right?

Oh wow. Maybe my boobs are imaginary friends. I give them voices. The girls are very sweet and caring. The twins talk in unison and giggle a lot.

What about imaginary personalities one doesn't imagine is a friend? I've been having a feud with one of my appliances for years now.
 
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imaginary friends using props, like dolls or second message board accounts, is taking it to the next level. trying to make it more real.

It's one thing to entertain yourself with imaginary things, it's something else to try to pass off an imaginary friend as real to other people. That crosses the crazy line. :yup:
 

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I never did
which is odd cus as a kid I didn't really hav any friends for a long time
when I heard about imaginery friends I tried for a day and I selected Mr Spok from Star Trek...I guess I didn't quite get the point of an imaginary friend since I used someone elses imagination
it didn't work out
I forgot all about him after like an hour
 

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No, but I'm extremely amused by the idea of doing it.

With my luck my imaginary friends would end up getting into arguments with me and then we'd get into a huge fight and end up frenemies. Then they'd reject me and only hang out with each other.

I'm better off personifying inanimate objects.

which ones
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I sort of do this, except I do a lot more than imagine scenarios. I go so far as to make up back stories, conflicts, and entire plots. One of mine occurs in an alternate reality, because this one wasn't interesting enough for me, I guess. I started writing them down when I realized how complex some of my stories had become. After I had written quite a lot, I finally confessed to TheBF what I had been doing and after much hand wringing, I finally let him read just one little chapter. He loved it so much I let him read a little more. He thinks I should publish it, but I don't know... it feels too personal to be something to open up to criticism.

I don't consider that to really be imaginary friend territory. I think that's just being really horny but having an active imagination, too.

why not write something for the erotic stories section
I know I'd read it
 

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This angle was what I was just thinking about. A couple of years ago I realized that almost every time I jacked off, it was to some form of porn - vids or erotic fiction. I made a concerted effort to start relying on just my biggest sex organ (the brain, you know) at least some of the time. One thing I noticed right away is that I would start creating these scenarios in my head where I would go back in time to some event I had really experienced years before, only now I am not so shy or awkward or stupid, what have you. In most of these cases, there is a new person with a co-starring role - for some reason I rarely try to incorporate people I really did know as my fantasy lover, although actual friends or family will appear in the background sometimes. The way I think about it, this is simultaneously a do-over for me in some respect, as well as a chance to kind of write with my mind and not a pen or keyboard. So I've got this mental collection of imaginary boyfriends that I can call up and then either pick up where I left off or go back and re-edit it again. It's also something for me to focus on as I am drifting off to sleep, especially if whatever else is on my mind is stressing me out. I allow myself to imagine very specific details about the whole encounter, not just the sex although that serves the immediate need, but also what a relationship might have been like and how that would have led me down a different path than the one I have walked.

I've known for years that I march to the beat of my own drummer, I guess this is one example of that. Or else I'm just cuckoo for cocoa puffs, lol. There's certainly nothing wrong with imagining anything you want so long as you can bounce back to the real world when necessary. Otherwise you maybe wind up like the woman Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly referred to as Miss Lonelyhearts in Rear Window, setting a table and cooking a meal for someone who isn't there.

Oh my god, we can't be the same person, can we? The imaginary porn stuff, I do the exact same thing and feel the same way about it too!
 

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:lmao:

I died laughing reading this! :tongue:

That's excellent. Some relationships just reach an endpoint, don't they? :wink:

I hit a brick wall with that one. I found myself going into too much detail and then trying to mentally go back and edit things. Or stopping to look up a year so I know whether or not Princess Di had died yet in the timeframe I'm placing it into. Gotta be accurate. :wink:

There is the sexual aspect to creating elaborate fantasies in your head, but it's not too far away from there to just keep them around and imagine all kinds of other everyday situations that don't involve sex. At least, in my brain it's not too far away. But I don't know if that qualifies as an imaginary friend or not either.
 

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I did once. I created a friend who would stick by me think or thin. Who would love me unconditionally and who would take on the world with me. I married a girl whom I thought fit this description and yeah I guess I imagined her to be all that. We're divorced .Jaja.
 

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I do not recall ever having an imaginary friend, however I did talk to my stuffed animals, later real animals. I still tend to carry on conversations with animals, sometimes I talk to my flowers and plants as well. If I really need rain or it's getting on my nerves I might even tilt my head back and complain to the clouds.