Faeries and ‘Imaginary’ Friends
Mar 7th, 2009 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Fiona's notes
Parents often contact me because they’re afraid that a child’s ‘imaginary’ friend is actually a ghost.
In most cases, they don’t need to worry. I believe that the vast majority of invisible friends (or friends that only the child can see) are faeries.
Shy faeries may choose to remain invisible. Other faeries have their own reasons for appearing translucent or as a simple ball of light. Some might be scary to a small child… and even more scary to a skeptical adult!
However, the loss of a childhood ‘imaginary’ friend is one of the great tragedies of growing up. It’s so traumatic for some people that, when they become parents, they want to banish the entity — as a ghost — before the child can become emotionally attached to it.
If you had an imaginary friend when you were little, think about this: What if that friend had been real, after all?
When children are very small, they’re too young to know that ‘faeries aren’t real’. So, they encounter them… sometimes every day.
It’s a happy friendship.
I think that we’re doing children and faeries a huge disservice by insisting that those friends are merely imaginary. It’s even worse when parents decide that they’re ghosts, and try to drive them away.
Do you think that ‘imaginary’ friends might be faeries?
I’d like to hear your opinions. Leave a comment to share your thoughts.
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I have an imaginary friend. Her name is George and she lives in Ireland. She is a bit of a tomboy and we share many secrets with eachother. Sometimes I speak to her with telapathic skills, asI get lonley when I am not in Ireland. It’s weird though because sometimes she just pops up in my mind as though she wants to talk to me. I no for sure that George is not a ghost. But could she be a bigger type of faerie, like a changling (a changling is when a human baby is born and the elves swap their baby with a human baby) but it’s strange beacuse sometimes she can become so real, like shes really talking to me in my mind! I”m seeing her soon and I’m really excited!
When I was young, I had an entire imaginary family. A brother and sister, a mother, and a father. I never classified them until I was older. I only knew they were real, and that was all I could say. Would say. When I was older, I began being contacted by entities–in my mind–who said they were ghosts, and continue to be to this day. As a result, I began to assume that my “imaginary” family were ghosts. However, it seems much more likely for an actual, blood-related family to be faerie and not ghost.
Well, personally, I’ve never had a stuck imaginary friend. For me it’s been stuffed animals, but they were always alive… that is until I moved. They were packed up in a u-haul for about a week, and now… well now it feels like something’s missing… =( I don’t know if it’s because of the different location, or that I hadn’t talked to them for a week, or that maybe I’ve grown-up, but now it feels like my connection with them is lost.
I hope you don’t think I’m crazy, or something of the sort. Then again, I don’t think that you’re the type of person that would do that. =)
Any thoughts…?
~B
my daughter had imaginary friends from the time she could walk. she called them her nitelight birds. we carried these 3 birds with litterally every where we went for 3 years. what amazes me the most is she never forgot them or left them anywhere she always told me she could see where they were, then one day she said they left and i havent heard anything bout them since.
Faeries dont want to meet me
The world is a much bigger, dynamic and conscious place than many of us have been taught to believe. When we set all of that limiting prejudice about what is “real” and “unreal” aside for a moment and lend credence to those creatures, those subtle voices that we intuit to be present, grant those voices the honor of personhood, a dialogue can occur and a more comprehensive view of the world – of the fullness of the world around us opens. This dialogue can occur with a Faerie, a stone, a tree, or even a park bench. When we honor the Faeries, leave food for them or simply engage them in conversation and allow ourselves to believe in their presence, our whole concept of the universe opens and blooms like a flower garden. For me Faeries are intelligent energy. They are creatures who have from time to time been in physical form and have mastered the skill of moving through out time and the physical world of “consensus reality”. If you need some sort of validation for your quest in this area consider that Quantum Physics is presently considering the same thing, but with different vocabulary. They call them intelligent particles, we call them Faeries.
Bright blessings,
John @ Fairy Woodland
i have a sad story i think. i never had a real imaginary friend. i wanted a real one so bad when i was little, but i had been convinced by my parents that they werent real, so i made one up. basically i was just talking to myself, but i pretended there could be someone there to listen. it was a girl my age with high, blonde pigtails named Sally. she was a character out of my learning books. i think that’s sad, that i was made to grow up too fast and i never had an imaginary friend. i thought maybe if i pretended really good and tried really hard that she would become real… but that also made believing in faeries and such now all the easier because there was a part of my childhood that was robbed and in that part is the ability to believe. so now i do believe. i havent seen one yet, but i still have the rest of my life
Brenna, I think it’s possible that the energy in your animals actually remained at your old home, at least for awhile. This is normal. By now, I hope that they seem as real to you as before.
Christina, I hope your daughter keeps those memories of her nitelight birds. They sound wonderful!
Samy, It’s important to be patient. Faeries can be pranksters and many of them like to tease people. If you’re too eager to meet them, they’ll hide. It’s part of the game.
John, Thank you, thank you! That’s a wonderful summary and you clearly share many of my views.