Adults need more imaginary friends | Andrew Roblyer | TEDxTAMU

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @lady-dm5os
    @lady-dm5os 7 лет назад +47

    I have an emotional attachment to my characters I write about. I imagine them doing all kinds of things.

  • @tan_the_man
    @tan_the_man 4 года назад +29

    I absolutely love this and it was kind of reassuring as someone who still has imaginary friends.💖

  • @ridealongwithnicolle1581
    @ridealongwithnicolle1581 3 года назад +15

    I have 5 imaginary friends. I call them tulpas. I got my friends through books mostly. And i give them a face. Often a celebrities face. The perfect celebrity that has the right look and the personality of my imaginaary friend/tulpa.

  • @selenaandthebears4610
    @selenaandthebears4610 4 года назад +32

    I have Imaginary friends too, and yes! I’m 18 years old.

    • @mystery5098
      @mystery5098 3 года назад +2

      Selena and the Bears I’m 12 and I can’t can you pls tell me how and I try so hard

    • @jamiecee4960
      @jamiecee4960 3 года назад +4

      I'm 100 years old. And I have them.

    • @snowqueen24
      @snowqueen24 2 года назад +2

      @@jamiecee4960 Wow. God bless you for living longer while having imaginary friends.😮

    • @najeeblade89
      @najeeblade89 2 года назад

      Me too. And I am 32 yrs.

    • @ΔημητραΒακου-ν2ζ
      @ΔημητραΒακου-ν2ζ Год назад +1

      ​@@snowqueen24god is an imaginary friend too

  • @ecowo57
    @ecowo57 13 дней назад

    I'm 21 and have an imaginary friend I communicate to through comics. They usually help me be more optimistic about situations and find a solution I feel comfortable with. I'm aware he's not real, but I still have a huge emotional attachment to him, because he's helped mea lot throughout the years

  • @tonyspider03
    @tonyspider03 2 года назад +4

    Yes! I've realized recently that many of my current favorite ideas to write about have spiraled out from my favorite video games and tv shows, especially from when I was younger. I used to think that made it "unoriginal" but I've actually seen that most of my favorite artists do the same thing, using ideas that spiraled out of things that came before it. God I love art I love culture I love innovation and iteration

  • @dawnqwerty
    @dawnqwerty 8 лет назад +12

    That is really mind blowing

  • @crazisinger4008
    @crazisinger4008 6 лет назад +12

    WOW what a great speech!! 👍👍

  • @frankmontague7544
    @frankmontague7544 7 месяцев назад +1

    MORE COMMON is Self Delusional EXAGGERATION of one's real life connections --- to help us cope with isolation. ❤IF IT HELPS we should employ every act of imagination to help us. SPIRITUALITY was probably born of this search for comfort. ❤

  • @shareenwallace6054
    @shareenwallace6054 Месяц назад +1

    I still have imaginary friends had them since I was age 5

  • @najeeblade89
    @najeeblade89 2 года назад +2

    My imaginary friend Sarahe Sonyah Archer was the best thing that has ever happened to me. She is married with two children. She lives in a city named Caillou.

  • @shirawise2318
    @shirawise2318 4 года назад +7

    The crowd is so awkward

  • @GenuineEncountersCo
    @GenuineEncountersCo 3 года назад +2

    Great video, thanks for sharing!

  • @willow_dearest08
    @willow_dearest08 2 года назад +2

    The corleone’s from The Godfather are my imaginary friends, as well as some original characters!!

  • @mystery5098
    @mystery5098 3 года назад +6

    There is a girls Chanel called as good as you she has 18 imaginary friends sub to her she is amazing

  • @snowqueen24
    @snowqueen24 2 года назад +4

    I had imaginary friends when I was 12. Now two of them are my imaginary brothers-in-law, and one is my imaginary husband. I have an emotional and physical attachment to them because I want to keep them in my life. However, I don't know what happens to our imaginary friends when we die.😐

    • @pinkzdraws4511
      @pinkzdraws4511 2 года назад +1

      Same man , I actually love a fictional character and he makes me feel a lot of different emotions, I'm attracted to him ,he talks to me and interacts with me and he makes me very happy well my mind was like will this stay forever and will I be bored or Idk will I be fed up with him or he disappear which I never want becuz he bought me so much joy and truthfully I don't feel attracted to anyone but I m doubtful I'm scared of future scared of changes ,he says he supports me no matter what choice I make well I just want to be with him and our kids yes I married him and we got two kids , well I think they die along with us becuz they only alive with our hearts u know ,well I been artblocked maybe that's why I doubt idk but one thing I want is to be with him forever and never be in relationship becuz I'm already happy as I'm with him our kids my art , well I only pray I get to live this way and overcome it as I have done always

    • @snowqueen24
      @snowqueen24 2 года назад

      @@pinkzdraws4511 Shut the heck up. Are you serious? I didn't know you married your imaginary friend and had two kids with him. Are we like mom buddies?😮

    • @snowqueen24
      @snowqueen24 2 года назад

      @@pinkzdraws4511 What do you and your imaginary family do on a daily basis? Do you guys go to the movies or go to amusement parks?

    • @snowqueen24
      @snowqueen24 2 года назад +1

      I got to see my imaginary children today. They are about 2 foot 4 inches tall now. The last time I saw them, they were very little toddlers. They turn 7 in December. They also gave me some pictures before they went back home and started on their homework.

    • @pinkzdraws4511
      @pinkzdraws4511 2 года назад +1

      @@snowqueen24 well we do all sorts of things ,go shopping, chilling at house , basically everything a family could do it's great when I get to see them really I feel happy

  • @slurm3124
    @slurm3124 Год назад +1

    im loosing all my frriends bc theyre all toxic, so instead im going to replace them with imaginary friends that ill talk to on a rotary phone, im lucky ima a schitzo with DID so being lonely is impossible so no friends is nothing

  • @aldaynewisdom9269
    @aldaynewisdom9269 4 года назад +5

    I'm a tulpamancer, 24 tulpa Cecilia Wiseman

  • @gradingterminal807
    @gradingterminal807 8 лет назад +3

    do we then even have a posessive relationship to them if we describe them features them thereby behave to their way do how being that a what make so characteristics? ..

  • @GummyBearRecords
    @GummyBearRecords 7 лет назад +9

    fanfiction!

  • @dawnqwerty
    @dawnqwerty 8 лет назад +2

    4 million subs. 2,000 views

  • @taneekasmith5782
    @taneekasmith5782 6 лет назад +4

    I can't do it I rather be sane

    • @kittykat8177
      @kittykat8177 4 года назад +10

      no imagination, not quite there!

    • @Cheerleader644860
      @Cheerleader644860 10 месяцев назад +3

      You're not necessarily insane for having an imaginary friend a lot of people who have them are very intelligent

  • @zanemelvin5258
    @zanemelvin5258 5 месяцев назад

    Resist the urge to make an edgy religion joke

    • @lucyferos205
      @lucyferos205 3 месяца назад

      Oh, come on, it's not edgy. It's just true.