I'm not paying enough attention to my imaginary friend

[Robbert Raets]

I tend to have 'inner dialogues' about practically anything. You could say I'm almost perpetually of two minds about something.

However, after this picture:

Gratuitous Dark Elf Cheesecake

...I just want to pick RangerWickett's brain

 

[RangerWickett]

I tend to have 'inner dialogues' about practically anything. You could say I'm almost perpetually of two minds about something.

However, after this picture: ...I just want to pick RangerWickett's brain

But if you pick at it, it will never get better. *grin*

 

[Acquana]

Is anyone else here incapable of dreaming? Cause I'm kind of thankful that I can't, now that I've read all this. I'd have constant nightmares about imaginary people running around and messing with me. Ech.

Not dreaming makes you insane a hell of a lot faster, friend. You just don't remember them. I hope.

Being a comic artist, there's a fine and grand tradition in my feild of people dealing with their alter egos and characters in strange ways. Wendy Pini of Elfquest had an entire elven tribe living in her house in the seventies; there's any number of stories where author meets character in stuff written by Grant Morrisson or John Byrne; take a look at pretty much every single webcomic on the net and you'll see references to the artist or writer made ... My friend (also a sequential art major graduate) sees her characters as sharing an apartment complex in her head, and if I wonder what a character of mine would do in any situation ... I just ask em.

Not only is it sane, it's a fine tradition, Wickett.

 

[Gnarlo]

Shortly after I first started driving back when I was 16, George Washington started riding in my passenger seat. We discuss current events, music, movies, politics, etc. Every once in a while, he'll still pop in for a visit when my wife isn't riding with me.

He's always been kinda a Time Squad version of George rather than the Father of Our Country sort; get any painting of him in your mind, then add some scruff to his face, a red flannel shirt on underneath his frock coat, work boots with big silver buckles on the front, chewing a cigar and drinking a beer.

 

[Mercule]

Maybe you do have one, he is just stalking you. Or he doesnt talk to you because he thinks he's better than you?

It'd be oddly fitting for me to have an introverted imaginary friend. He's around, just invisible and quiet.

 

[kirinke]

Heh. No imaginary friends here.
But I do talk to myself quite a bit.
I even hold rousing debates with myself.
I even loose sometimes.
My co-workers look at me weird when i start to rant to myself.
Out loud.
And no, I have absolutely no grip on sanity.
I lost mine along time ago and didn't leave a forwarding address. It works for me. I like to say that I'm a well-adjusted lunatic.

 

[ForceflowX]

I don't have an imaginary friend as such, or hold conversations with other personae. On a similar note, though, Lee Majors co-hosts my dreams.

Most nights, being a lucid dreamer most of the time, the dream frame will pull off on a slight angle leaving a black space with Star Trek starlines warping through it. Lee Majors, dressed in the Six Million Dollar Man jumpsuit, will walk in from stage right and talk to me about events in the dream, helping me analyze issues and study my own personality. He says he's not sure why he's Lee Majors. He just works for my subconscious.

Oddly enough, I was ill in mid-December, and one night I was having a typical sex/superhero dream of no importance or relevance. The Dream Frame swiveled out, but instead of stars, there was a disco mirror ball and Gil Gerard in the Buck Rogers white jumpsuit stepped in carrying a martini. He told me Lee couldn't make it, he "had a thing", and I was supposed to pay attention and learn something. Then he told me he was going to get a beer and stepped around the back of the frame, which closed back up.

That's just way too cool.

 

[fusangite]

Only a tiny portion of your original message has been quoted; you could still eliminate the almost whole thing with the EDIT feature. I recommend you do so. I'll give you until 9am EST tomorrow to sober up and do so. Then I will begin mercilessly mocking/psychoanalyzing you.

 

[kirinke]

Why fus? We all know that sanity is relative. The insane just have no illusions about their state of mind. It's the one's who claim to be sane that worry me.

 

[Nifft]

get art for her and everything

Right on. Imaginary girls totally go for that artsy stuff.

-- N