Imaginary Friends

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Well, Jerry Garcia's ghost generally gives me advice, general stuff(like relax and stuff).

It's pretty hard to understand what's going on in your head, from what you've said. Do you mean that you literally hear a voice, with the understanding that Jerry Garcia is not really talking to you?A lot of people think Jesus talks to them...literally. So I certainly don't think that you are crazy.

Yeah, that's basically how it works. I guess it's more logical than these other people you're talking about.

S >> On an anonymous forum, the person doesn't matter.I > I have to disagree with you on that, Steve. There are people behind the imaginary nicks, and I think how they feel matter, even if you don't know their names (indeed, why should names, or appearance, matter?).What I'm getting at is that people often lose sight of the question that a poster asks, and get caught up in personality issues ("That guy's posted a lot of obnoxious questions." "That guy is a jerk." "I don't like that guy.") Obviously, if someone talks about their life and their depression, you can't just skip over the personal issues. But people often get jumped on when asking a simple question. I've done it myself.And of course their appearance/race/etc. doesn't matter, unless that's the subject of the post.I was certainly not saying that how they feel doesn't matter.

I'm not sure that logic plays a part in this, one way or the other, but if it doesn't bother you, and it doesn't interfere with your life, then it sounds OK to me. It doesn't matter others aren't (or won't admit to being) the same way.But I do think it might be interesting if you'd write down some of the dialogue (or monologue, as the case may be). If I were you, I'd definitely keep a journal.[P.S.: Sorry about trashing up your thread.]

This certainly is interesting. I'm not into psychology and I have never heard voices, thus I find this all hard to comprehend. How can one have voices that pop into your head and not be concerned? Granted, awareness is key. He is aware that it is imaginary and can currently distiguish that fact. But can there come a time, in the future, when that distinction becomes fuzzy?

My friends and I do the same thing when we're bored, we create imaginary people and what types of personalities they would have if they were actually real. Of course we also do that with real people we see. We make a game of it. Like if we see an old man sitting at the train station, we make up a past for him. We do goofy stuff like that all the time to amuse ourselfs. I wouldn't say it was normal, but I wouldn't say it was abnormal either. Who knows what normal is anyways?

But can there come a time, in the future, when that distiction becomes fuzzy?It would requre a thorough understanding of the person to even make a guess. I don't think there's any way to really know. But I think it's ironic that people don't question folks who hear voices in a religious context. There are a lot of people on TV who claim to be in regular communication with God.

" But I think it's ironic that people don't question folks who hear voices in a religious context."I do that all the time and have already talked with many people about that. Some of those people even are on this board.

a kid in my school went nuts. He heard "voices" that told him wut to do and he acted diffrent whenever he was a diffrent person. He ended up being diagnosed with a desies called multiple personality disorder. doesnt sound like wut u have though

I have never had one. Even while growing up.

No, I don't think it's weird at all. I mean, this is pretty much what professional authors do when they come up with their fictional characters, albeit theirs are much more down-to-earth. So, Long, I am suggesting you write a book. Or at least do what SteveA says, and keep a journal.