Imaginary Friend
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18/9/08 20:32
17/9/08 21:29
We are experiencing this at the moment with our daughter (she is 22 months) she has really scared me a few times saying there is someone watching her in her room and that she wants them to go away. A few times when i have gone into her in the morning she has been asleep under the bed, she says she was hiding from the man. One night when my hubby was out she woke up and kept pointing at nothing saying tell them to go away, she almost convinced me there was actually someone there!! I was so glad when my hubby came home. She says this man scares her. At first I thought it was just a nightmare but sometimes during the day she talks to him - its very strange.
Just recently she has been sitting reading her books and chatting away to this imaginary person who she calls bluey. She has really freaked me out, but I put it down to an overactive imagination (at least im hoping thats what it is lol)
17/9/08 07:44
My dd had an imaginary friend called Dilly. Dilly lived in Portsmouth and went to work in London on the train! Eventually she also had a 20 month old brother called Dill. I have NO idea where this came from (although a friend of mine is convinced Dilly is an old ghost that used to live in our house!) and Dilly and Dill were around alot for a while when dd was 2-3. She is now nearly 4 and we don't hear so much about Dilly now. I read that having an imaginary friend shows the child has a good imagination and is nothing to worry about. We never had to make dinner for Dilly though thank goodness but she did often get blamed for things!16/9/08 18:46
DD hasn't but I had an imaniginary friend called Emily. I don't know where that came from either. Are you sure nobody has mentioned the name in your house? There is a Niall in Hollyoaks at the moment. Otherwise, I can't think of what to say.
16/9/08 17:43
Hi there! I'm just wondering as the title says do any of your ds/dd's have an imaginary friend? My DS is 22 months old and we have just came back from holidays in Spain, but while we were there he starting saying there was a man in the room and that his name is Niall, we just all looked at each other and didn't say much but last night (after a few times since we came back) he started saying hello Niall and that Niall was all wet and was going on the bike and he was at the door, then after a half hour, he said "goodbye Niall". We had no mention of the name and he hasn' met anyone by the name of Niall, or picked it up from any TV programme but it gave me the shivers! You know the way they say babies/toddlers minds are more open to "seeing" things than ours are! I couldn't sleep well and Morgan woke up at about three this morning and said to me when I went in "look at the man Mummy"
Has anyone else experiened anything like this? Or is it anything to worry about?
Oh my god yes and it freaked me out to!!! My dd is bit younger tho, she is 19 months. we were at our friends house which we go to quite a bit and she went to walk down there hallway and came running back to me and virtually jumped on my lap and clung to me which is very unlike her,she was saying, 'no mummy, man, boots.' she kept saying it and pointing down the hallway and would not go back down there at all, and ever since then she keeps on saying when we are at home, 'man upstairs'.....really dont know what it is but i just keep saying to her that ther is no man up there and she seems to be ok then,
I was just saying yesterday that i wouldn't be suprised if she has an imaginary friend when older as she seems to have a bit of a wild imagination, i didnt realise they had them so young tho!!!