I've had an imaginary girlfriend for nearly 5 years now, and I'm on a mission to show people imaginary friends can be a good way to defeat loneliness and get your life back on track if you feel lost or like nobody will ever love you. Ask me whatever, about myself or about them.
If you yourself have an imaginary partner and want to tell us about them, or if you need advice on this sorta stuff, do post.
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Fuck off with your bait thread. It's cute when a toddler imagines things but it's mental ilness when an adult does it.
nobody wants to know about your mental illness faggot
Sounds intriguing.
Seek help.
It's not bait. I don't mind asking "dificult" questions if you have any.
I don't have a mental illness. A mental illness is something that hinders your ability to function either within society or physiologically.
And I suppose you think it's up to you and other potentially mentally ill people what constitutes as "hindering your ability to function"?
It's a waifu user, it's called a waifu. A tulpa if you wanna sound /x/
Maybe this would help us get some common ground: in what ways do you think this hinders my ability to function?
Maybe it works for you, but lots cant participate without looking retarded. In addition, you probably ly do have a mental illness
What do you say when/if people ask about your relationship status in real life?
I completely understand why it can help you, but I don't think it's good to do this shit. It will mess you up in the end. It's like these guys that have a relationship with a sex doll and pretend they're real.
>It will mess you up in the end.
It's vague statements like this that make no sense to me? Like what do you mean? We're all going to die in the end. It's enjoying the interim that matters.
>having an imaginary girlfriend
it's called porn
Is that a black John Waters?!?!
Can confirm imaginary g/f can be a help when super lonely and depressed. Did this for years in the past, and now am happily married to real girl.
Interesting... I never saw the relationship between the three until just now, user.
When you're 70 in a house full of plastic sex dolls and realise you will have no offspring because you were too afraid to get to know a real woman, then maybe you'll figure it out
If you were genuinely okay with it, you wouldn'y feel the need to justify yourself to strangers on the internet. You are lonely and humping your pillows won't change that. Work on yourself and become a suitable partner for someone, and don't just recede into yourself and pretend you're okay fantasising.
It's a mental problem. It's not right. The more you do it, the more you will become used to it. Not good. You should focus on bettering yourself. Force yourself to be social with other human beings.
>don't mind asking dificult questions
You means answering, not asking, you delusional communist.
research “Tulpas” and develop your own imaginary interactable friend that you’ll see, hear, and feel! side effects include induced schizophrenia
What the hell is a Tulpa. I was intrigued when I saw these people saying "don't treat them like slaves, they have feelings too" so naturally I wondered how do you enslave them?
fuck you beat me to this comment
I don't want kids first of all and by the time I'm 70 the fembots will probably be smarter than most basic hoes you'll find on the street
So basically it's not good becuase it's not what most other people do?
Sounds like fun tbh
I have an imaginary sister and I secretly video her pooping
I tell them the truth, I'm single.
Why would they look retarded? I don't quite get this part.
She's HEAVILY against porn.
It's just an imaginary friend, bro, relax.
A common misconception is that I treat her as a replacement for a "real" relationship. That's simply not the case. If I ever get in a relationship with someone else, it'll be because of her. However, many people see them as replacements for regular people, and that's part of what I'm trying to combat.
It's not about justifying myself, it's about letting others know about this option. I want to help people, and I think much pain could be fixed by making use of these things.
The tulpa community is not very bright. They're more interested in fighting for "muh tulpa rights" than scrutinizing them, even if they call themselves a "scientific community". The modern, internet, tulpa concept is bad, I'd recomend staying away from it.
You literally create your own world to live in. Humans are social creatures, you can't live without talking to an actual human, and no, your imaginary girlfriend is not a different person, when you talk to "your girlfriend" you talk to yourself but with a different voice. If you won't stop lying to yourself, you'll become so distant from the real world that it would be to late to come back
>I think much pain could be fixed by making use of these things.
You mean denying reality and curling up in fantasies in order to ignore your problems? That doesn't sound like too smart an idea to me. Nor a helpful one.
And then eventually you die and there's no one left to even know anything "wrong" happened
>no offspring
Sounds like freedom to me.
it's not about others finding out that there's something wrong with you, it's about denying and suppressing your feeling that "i'm lonely, i should do something"
If you're too uncomfortable to go out and talk to real people. Get a VR headset with body tracking and go on VRChat. That way you can improve your social skills from your own home.
This is simply not how it works. Yes, there are a lot of people who just wish to recede into fantasy, but this is not what I'm advocating for, and it's a part of what I want to fight against.
Think of them as just a regular person (for the sake of argument). Having a friend isn't inherently a good thing. If you have a friend who's a bad influence, then you're SOL. Your friend might like hanging out with you and smoking w33d and play video games together all day, but if he never pushes you to go out and do the things you must do, then he'll be a bad friend, and someone unhealthy, especially if they mean a lot to you. It doesn't matter what kind of friend you have, it's nice to have fun with friends and enjoy their company (which I do with her), but if they don't understand that there's more to life than having fun and relaxing and escaping your problems, then you simply don't have a good friend, imaginary or not. This is the kind of assumptions I'm trying to dispell.
As for them not being a different person, it's all about perspective. Again, they are NOT MEANT to replace humans. Like you said, they know no more than you do, and their experience may be completely filtered through your own senses, but they can still have radically different personalities than you, and help you think and see things in ways you wouldn't otherwise. This is why they can be so good for self improvement, because they're someone not just on the inside, but also with a somewhat detached view of you.
You shouldn't neglect flesh and blood relationships because of them, that's not what I'm saying. No real woman would replace her, the same way she doesn't replace anyone else. Instead, if you're lonely, they can help you forget a little about relationships, so you can stop having your brain filled with misery, and maybe see some light that might help you get back on your feet and start integrating with the world better.
I hope this clears it up a little!
after reading this nice article: technologyreview.com
I'm considering trying that "Worthy" app for fun. Anybody goes some input about it ?
>You shouldn't neglect flesh and blood relationships because of them, that's not what I'm saying. No real woman would replace her, the same way she doesn't replace anyone else. Instead, if you're lonely, they can help you forget a little about relationships, so you can stop having your brain filled with misery, and maybe see some light that might help you get back on your feet and start integrating with the world better.
This makes a lot of sense, user. Let me tell you a little story. I have had imaginary g/f's on and off during lonely spells, or even during lonely moments when I was in a relationship that was going off the rails. In all those cases, I deliberately conjured up someone to talk to and hang out with. Once, tho, in a very low moment, when I felt like everything was completely fucking fucked... someone came to me, unbidden. She just appeared to me and we talked, she sort of took care of me emotionally and was nice to me. This experience last a couple of hours, then she was gone. I talked to one friend about it and her suggestion (being pagan) was that it was an "avatar of the goddess" appearing to me, sort of an embodiment of the feminine essence who stopped in to look after me because I really needed that.
Maybe you have a good relationship with "yourself" xdd, but you shouldn't advertise this way of life to other lonely people, cause there's a lot of things that can go wrong and hurt you in the long run.
But i'm still against this. This way of living and thinking ignites a habit to use people. You use your imaginary gf for masturbation when you're bored and for emotional support when you're sad, after that you forget that she even exists in your head. That way of thinking starts to influence your actual relationship with your friends, to use them for your benefit
I have to agree op.. imaginary friends are the best.. only need to feed them imaginary food, bust a nut on their imaginary face, etc
>You use your imaginary gf for masturbation when you're bored and for emotional support when you're sad, after that you forget that she even exists in your head.
Why are you even making all these assumptions? I don't get it.
>That way of thinking starts to influence your actual relationship with your friends, to use them for your benefit
I don't get what you mean by this part either, sorry. Maybe you could elaborate?
> "avatar of the goddess"
Otay!
This is really, uhm, stupid. You can discuss this for hours but it won't change the overriding fact that it's just really stupid. Humans invent the dumbest shit, then attempt to legitimize it. Pathetic.
No. It's a black Adolf Hitler.
“Alexa, do you find me sexy?
not OP and never had an imaginary friend, but what are your grounds for that statement?
there are millions of selfish people who use others for their own benefit and most likely never had imaginary friends.
unfortunately there won't be any statistics as to how many people with imaginary friends turn out that way but at this point what you said is merely your theory.
it's important for people to try to see things from different perspectives to be able to understand other, also real people better. an imaginary friend of the sort OP described can help with that.
also, I could imagine that a sexual relationship with an imaginary friend may be more healthy than going down the hardcore porn rabbit hole.
Comments like those are the reason why I always tell people to NEVER tell others about their imaginary friends under ANY circumstances. People just go "it's unhealthy", and if you show them it's not, then they'll just say "it's going to become unhealthy". And like I said, I do think this can be very unhealthy if done the wrong way, but at the end of the day, these are tools (in the sense they're created for a specific purpose, not to diminish what they're capable of), and there's always wrong and right ways to use tools. Thanks for keeping an open mind.
What's the right way to converse with something that isn't there? Nah, no mental illness here.
I don't understand.
>converse with something that isn't there?
You can't, what are you trying to say?
Are you asking me how I talk to her? It's through thoughts.
you're welcome.
keep up what you're doing OP.
it may actually be a great way to get lonely lazy people out of their loophole.
imaginary friend is just a name that often leads to prejudice and misunderstandings.
maybe one could call it an alternate character or personality you use to broaden your horizon and see the faults in your everyday life routine
Maybe it's that some people are just real assholes? Humans are not complex creatures, rather primitive actually.
Tried to convince my girlfriend I had another girl when I wanted to break up. Psycho bitch wouldn't leave me alone and kept demanding we get back together, so I got a buncha pics from a random bitches Instagram, set up a fake facebook page and pretended it was my girlfriend to get my crazy bitch ex to back off. Finally had my sister pose as my fake girlfriend & call my stalker bitch ex, threaten to beat her ass. That finally did the trick.
So yeah, imaginary girlfriends can be useful at times.
>imaginary friend is just a name that often leads to prejudice and misunderstandings.
>maybe one could call it an alternate character or personality
I disagree, I'd rather try to turn the idea into something a bit more accepted. If you change the name, you're doing little than just escaping the misunderstandings, rather than tackling them, which won't do much good in the long term. Besides, people know what an imaginary friend is. Even if they may not be aware of how much they can do, they know what imagination is, so that sort of gives them a stepping stone. This is actually another reason why I don't like "tulpas", because they are imaginary friends (even though the tulpa community says they're different, spoilers: they're not), and I feel there's no need to obfuscate what you're doing by using obscure words when there're already well established expressions to describe it.
But I do get you, don't worry.
Sounds like you had a succubus, a female Demon. You are a fuckin idiot
Nice to see someone else into this type of thing. I've had an imaginary daughter for a while now. Always wanted to be a dad. Don't really share this with anyone, but it just puts me in a great mind space every night, as I just imagine scenarios where we do normal dad/daughter things.
Never heard of an imaginary daughter before. Hope things work out for you! Just remember to take care of yourself.
God boys need not apply.
Same. I fucked my imaginary 19 y.o. college freshman daughter for awhile. In reality, it was a prostitute at the local legal brothel here in Pahrump that I paid a little extra to incest role play. Got boring after awhile. So now I have her role play she's my 18 y.o. sister. Gotta change it up a little & keep it exciting.
How do you make your own imaginary friend?
That's horrible and not the true definition of an imaginary daughter. There's no actual human interaction with an imaginary relationship; simply use photos to create an imaginary world/life. A photo of my 'daughter's' first day of school allows me to create an entire scenario of that day - from the family conversation at breakfast, to my interaction with my wife, picking my girl up from school, getting ice cream, etc. It's very therapeutic for someone like myself, who will never have the opportunity at that life.
Ask god, the ultimate imaginary friend.
Oh boy!
There's a pastebin on the discord if you want to check it out. I can't seem to post it here (spam).
