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I was reading TrinityGirl01 first encounters and it got me to think. What if as children our “imaginary” friends are not imaginary but more along the lines of ghost. I’ve heard that children have more chances in seeing something that we adult don’t. I don’t understand why they can and we cant, I mean what if we saw something as a child and the adult around us passed it off as a childhood dream or game. I guess my question is do you think “imaginary” friends are just made up or do you think there could be something more to it?

I believe there is more to it...I don't really know why it seems more children see ghosts then the adult...perhaps we do see them but we don't know that they are ghosts...perhaps they appear to adults differently then children...

I know in the case of my own "imaginary" friend as a child, she was quite real. Turned out to be my spirit guide. I would think many of children's imaginary friends are not so "imaginary".

I had imaginary friends when I was a child, but they weren't ghosts. I did see ghosts, though. Everyone in my family had, but I'd seen them the most often

Imaginary. Ghosts lie on a whole other astral plain then us.

Maybe for some children. I definetly believe that could be true though.
Not for me though. My imaginary friends were just imaginary.

It is an interesting question. Perhaps that is what our imaginary friends are while we are a child. Then we reach the age where people tease you for having them and so we close our mind to those type of occurrances to "fit in". I wish the world were more open-minded. But it seems a good enough explanation to me. Why else would we be able to see as children and no longer when we grow up?

I have never had an "imaginary" friend but I do believe that I have seen ghosts. My opinion is that they are entirely separate, I have a hard time seeing ghosts deciding to just be best friends with children. But thats just my thoughts.

I really think it all has to do with the kids.. Some of the "friends" are lost family members I think..

Thank you all for your input

Honestly i think theres more to it. I believe kids perceive things and pick up on things differently then most grown adults. Their senses are more atuned to unfamilar things and they feel the world around them differently then us adults do..Not sure why they sense imaginary friends etc and we can't do it as much. Maybe it is because they have a different mindset and also because they believe entirely as where we adults tend to be more cynical. Not sure, but that might be a good point. =] Their belief systems are different then ours.

Not...Children have a wider span of imagination then adults do. Children have the willingness to create and make things real in their eyes...most adults don't.

Makes You wonder if they were imaginary or not..Kids are more innocent in ways than we are so of course they see things we cant..There is alot of things that is strange, who knows the answer anyways?

I would think an'imaginary friend' is something or someone a child made up. Ghosts are ghosts..imaginary friends are imaginary friends. For the most part at least..

beause children are open, they havent put up walls yet to block.

Well for the first part of your question . No I belive they are for the most part totally separte . Now some children , not knowing the distinction between the two might confuse them . For the second part of your question . I belive that as a child our brain is open to the boundless possibilites of ...well ...anything . As we grow we are offten times taught that such things are nonsence . As such we start passing them off , and over time shut our brain down to those functions

I think it can be either way...
Children have an innocents about them that enables them to see things that we as adults can't

when i was young i had my charlie he would always be there when things got rough really bad for me he took me to far far away and to this day i can still go there where my charlie went i dont know but when things get to were i need to be at peace i have far far away
thanks my charle for all ur help where ever u may be

We know that children have a much harder time distinguishing between what is fantasy and what is real than adults. I think we need to keep this in mind when we are talking about imaginary friends.

Gaius that not really true most kids now days know the difference between real and none some dont like me i'm 20 years old and still have issues when it comes to some things I see. like they say seeing is believeing and if the kids see them why shouldnt they believe them.

In some cases yes and others no. It is rather dependent upon the type of information gathered from the "friend" and the childs history.

Some cases there may be more to it. But in others they are made up in the mind to help deal with something going on or to replace something that is missing.

I never had an imaginary friend; I wonder if this is a good thing or not?

I think imaginary friends are just that...imaginary...

I'm sure some children actually see something, while others don't. My imaginary friends as a child was just that, imaginary.

I think i have posted this somwhere on here before. i have read that we are all born with the ability to see more then whats visible to the eye. as we grow and learn and slowly conform to what is the normal in our society and culture at that time, we .. no longer nurture those abilities. Hence forth loosing those skills.

ummm could be ether or but id say imaginary

My imaginary friend was incredibly real. My parents, to give them their due, were quite happy for me to have her. They were quick to dismiss ghosts and monsters but I think they were fine with me having positive companions.

I would tend to come down on the side of it being a very strong imagination, but it would be nice to think that the companions some of us have had as children could be real.

Chridren as souls closer to coming from the womb (the ether) than adults. Adults are more into themselves and not as open-minded as children

well id listen and ask the child what they see and id try to really see what that child see's first before i say he is crazy..

I definately believe there is more to it.

I think children can see things better than us, because there still so open minded about everything.

They haven't been told what is real & what is not like adults have.

That sounds a bit like the "cartoon effect". You know, where someone doesn't fall until after he has realized that he has walked off the cliff ....

Sorry, don't buy it. Kids might have another outlook on things and a different way of describing, but either it's there or not.

I believe there is more to it

I do believe that children's imaginary friends could be ghosts. Chlidren can see things we cant, because their minds are more open (IMO) to such supernatural forces. I don't have an example to share offhand but do believe this to be true.

When i was little i had an inmaginary friend Cindy and to this day i can describe her to a tee , i remember her so clearly.. So yes i do think that is is possible they are spirits.

kids can see stuff we cant . one of my friends little sisters was running in the house one day and she fell then we heard someone say are you ok and she said yes we went in there but only her little sis was there.

I never had an imaginary friend. I just tried to imagine that my friends were there when they couldn't come over.

i have often wondered the same thing. i believe that they can see them. i think they are more sensitve to those things

I think this is possible, children have such active minds anyways. Then we go watch a movie like the Messangers.

i like this topic , i dont no much about it but my wife had heard my son talking to him self one day and she ask him if he had a imaginary friend he was playing with. one time he says to her yes mom its my imaginary friend .. but later on he tells her it wasnt a real imaginary friend.. i personally dont want some deamon coming after my son or some ghost playing with him.. that scares me to death..

I think that's definitely possible.

The way I see it, the reason young children and animals can see things that we as adults don't see(most of us anyway) is because they aren't told "that doesn't exist" or they don't train their mind that way.
So they actually see what's there, instead of training their mind to block it out. I think the blocking happens sometime growing up.

One thing that's wrong with this idea is that why wouldn't we remember having real imaginary friends? I know I used to pretend to have a sister, but I knew she wasn't there.

First I have to say I love reading what everyone has said about this . Second my sister still to this day complains of seeing spirits . When she was younger she said they were her friends no one else could see .

i would say that this leaves a good debate on what is seen and isnt, i think the question is could they describe things , so that we could or would belive things that are said by them?

Well I believe that some make them up and some truly see a ghost or something around those lines. Kids are very imaginative. I am almost an adult and I have seen ghosts people don't believe me but I have and I know they are real.

I was a lonely child.... even my imaginary friends wouldn't play with me...

i do not believe in ghosts, therefore i do not think there is more.
i believe that children use their minds more because there is more life for them to explore.
they find the joys in life and use their minds for what they are for...to think.
having an imagination is something that should be cherished.

well i believe not.. kidsmore intune with the unknown as many have said they do not have ability yet do deny what most believe to be untrue so everything they see in the next realm is here in reality..dont know if how i wrote makes sense.. i have tendices to speak better than i write ..

could be...but i never had one

It could go either way. I know that my own imaginary friends were just that - imaginary. But it is possible that other people's imaginary friends are actually spirits or some other entities.

I did not think this topic was going to get this many hits wow. and i love all of your oppions very decided

well i could ask my son if he still has his imaginary friend he use tio play with when he was younger..

yes i do believe children can see things us parents cant

I think it's both -- I remember as a kid believing in things so hard ,, that to this day they are truely real to me ..

there is no dought in my mind that a child couls have a ghosts rather than an imaginary friend, a friend of mine had that happened and so did her littlest sister

i think there is more to it . i still talk to my imaginary friends so maybe they are ghosts unless im going crazy .................

I believe it could be more .. and as for children sensing more than adults .. as kids we are more willing to accept the unexlained or the unknown untill told other wise where as adults We require an explanation for everything .. just My views

Well, I don't know about everyone,
but I never lost my "imaginary friends"
and I KNOW they are spirits. I am not
too sure about the whole ghost thing,
but maybe they are that too...

I have never had an imaginary friend. I just talk to myself alot. Perhaps there is something to this.

Since not all children had or have an imagery friend it would be more sensible to believe that they are in fact made-up, hence - imaginary. A escape from a world that the child feels that it doesn't belong in. When this child doesn't grow up and interact in the real world as an adult the imagery friend becomes a spirit guide. Some lives are wasted in fantasy.

i believe its cause as a child the mind is young and still building , there for the brain waves are hitting in all partens ,,, kinda like a system that can pick up 1000s of kinds of radio waves, whether meant for sound or picture.

so i say ya.

Children are the true essince of innocence so they should be able to see what us not so innocent adults can see including spirits or their imaginary friends

I believe there is more to it

depends on the child mine was a spirit.. but my step sis hers was not. Shrugs it all depends on the person and what they are able to do.

this is still going around...wow...I didnt think it was that good of a topic..*shrugs* oh well also yea now that i read some I also think there is more to it

i think that they are either imaginary or a part of us that doesnt get out much.....like a split personality

I would only admit to this on this site, but I saw "imaginary people" until I was 16 years old. I also slept with my head under the covers until the age of 16 because if this. At the time I thought I was crazy (my parents could not see the apparitions when I would call them into the room) , now I know that was just sensitive to my surroundings. I wish that I had been comfortable enough to explore what was really going on.

i belive that there is more to it and it could be anything.....i think that adults cant see what children see maybe beacuse are belivers they belive in everything but adults dont do most of the times they think that its carzy and so on.....that is my opinion.....:)

oh i definately believe there is more to it i rember my niece had her little blue man and when we moved she said she no longer seen him but the people that live there know their little boy sees a little blue man that is his friend

Interesting question... on one hand I would like to think that it was all in my mind.... but because I have an adult mind now. And as such look to science to explain most experiences in life... I am not truely subjective. Sorry.

crmsncreature nothing to be ashamed of at all about that.

Well being that children are much more open they wee are as adults i think that a lot of the time the imaginary friends are guides.

I think some are imaginary and some are real.

PoisonBelle, you're right. I had an imaginary friend as a child who turned out to be a spirit trying to protect me from demonic stalking.

Children have not had years of 'don't tell lies' or 'thats not true or real' drilled into their heads. Their minds and imaginations know no boundaries and so they are more open to things.

Children have a better chance to see spirits because they do not have a preconcieved notion that they dont exist. Most adults dont believe that spirits dont exist so they will convince children that wahat they see is just imaginary

This is VERY common. People have often theorized that children, being new to this Earth and straight from the 'other side', are more perceptive to spirits. And as you become an elderly person- you get closer to God once again... and perception is again heightened.

Not unless a horse is around. That was my friend.

I believe children interact with ghosts and yes, I think it is possible that it is under the guise of imaginary friend. My little sister when she was about 3-5 use to play and laugh by herself. When she left the house...she stopped..It was then we realized the house was haunted. As if the ghost was board or lonely it began to make itself known to the rest of us.

Some good thoughts...I beleive as children are more open to the spirits world around them that it is possible for some to be seeing ghosts on occation. But such things are also rare- I do not think every child would be seeing them. And almost every child growing up has at least one imaginary friend.

kids can see ghosts more then adult so could be possible

My answer to this one is simple...

Imagination is the key to everything.

Do those of you that believe in God SEE him or does the image of him (other than that picture that appears to be some form of Jacques DeMolay and not a Jewish man from the Palestinian area) appear to you when you pray?

We create our own realities in our imaginations.

Imaginary playmates are as real as anything else that one can think up and believe in.

I have always believed that imaginary childhood friends were or are your spiritual guides, ancestors or even just lonely spirits.

I had two imaginary friends when I was little, to me they were very real.

Might be that these imaginary friends are real, and not just imagination.

I wouldnt know for sure, since I have zero experience with these kind of things.

But I am open to that possibility, since it is true that kids are pure, their minds are relaxed, not attuned in their own individuality wich they never still fully develope at that age, so I guess their minds are observant and reactive of other things, wich we as adults subconciously ignore, but they are there all the time.

You know, it depends. Some yes, some no. It's part of being a child no matter how you slice it. There's nothing wrong with it.

My son has gone through this in situations where I believe it to be spirits, and some just the comforting imagination of an only child.

I think that when we reach an age we lose our gifts because the world doesn't want us to have it. Kids see more because their mind is open and untainted ny the world.

I believe they are something more. My little brother, who is 5 years old, claims to have a friend whom he calls Dude. This 'imaginary friend' is 50 years old and my little brother claims that his father died too when we attended a recent funeral. I do believe that they can see something we can't. And as to your question about why we can't, well as we become adults we loose the sense of imagination and open mind. We grow up to society's expectations.

When I was younger I saw a shadow person. For me that was very real.

I had a witch 'imaginary friend', I never saw her, but I would pretend she was there.

I always would talk out loud to no one in particular, but I would feel a presence there. I still do that actually.

My younger brother used to see some creepy stuff when he was younger. Don't know if he had any imaginary friends or not. He also saw a shadow person when I was with him, but I never saw it. I still wonder why I didn't?

some of the imaginary friends are creatures out of this world. in that case they might see a friendly other-planely creature in another dimension, Ouija board style only a Casper the friendly Ghost version.

its like when your cat follows something around the room with its eyes... and you cant see it. maybe your kid can see it too?im just guessing here.

i beleave that is true because they are more of a free spirit then the average indavidual

I think children's imaginary friends is just their imagination

it is possible they could see ghosts. but it's also just as possible that it's just their imagination

well I think in most cases the child's imaginary friend is just that, an imaginary friend but when the child becomes more descriptive about it's appearance and gets way into having an imaginary friend like not socializing with other children when they are around then maybe it is a ghost something that actually exists...something that adults can't see.

I believe it's completely possible. Children can usually see ghosts better than adults, as children are still new to the world and haven't had society drill into their heads that "such things can't exist". I believe ghosts exist, but because of society and what they deem as "normal", those of us who have grown have a harder time seeing ghosts, while society sees the children having "imaginary" friends as normal. If you have imaginary friends and you're a child, you're normal. If you have imaginary friends and you're an adult, you're schizophrenic.
Another fault of society.

Some may be imaginary, but personally they are ancestors or spirit guides that are talking to children because they are open and do not have preconcieved ideas that adults have.

Make believe friends do not exist...imaginary friends
an autistic child I now may communicate through his imaginary friend.He does not to to the person he is speaking with...hard to explain but yes imaginary friends are possible.

okay someone needs to delete this. Topic is done with lol