Imaginary Friends
When we are children, some of us may feel lonely sometimes. Some of us choose to create imaginary friends to keep us company. We do all sorts of activities with them and talk to them as if they were really there. Parents and psychologists do not really think anything of it unless the child starts using the imaginary friend as an excuse for not taking blame for something done wrong. Certain children have even said that the imaginary friend has done some things that children are incapable of doing.
In the paranormal field, it is widely believed that some of these children’s imaginary friends are ghosts of other deceased children. These ghosts appear to children because at this age, they are innocent beings with no benevolence. The ghosts make contact friendly enough and simply try to get noticed by the parents of the child. Rarely has it ever been reported that these imaginary friends told the child to kill an animal or steal. This is where Hollywood takes these theories and applies them into their big-budget scripts.
Is there really anything to this imaginary friend phenomena? Are these children simply using their imagination or is it possible they are communicating with the dead?
Did you mean that they are innocent with no *malevolence*? I’m fairly certain benevolence is a word for kindness.
I remember once when I was little, I would think out loud sometimes (something I still do) and pretended to have an imaginary friend when the teacher asked me who I was talking to.
But, the idea of imaginary friends being spirits seen only by children…that does sound possible. It’s actually something I’d wondered before.