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Can someone tell me - do twins have imaginary friends?

I know I am not often serious - but this is a serious question.

My imaginary friend was called Jesus lol.He used to go everywhere with me and we would sit on the back doorstep and have tea parties.I know my Mum cringed when we would be on the bus and I wouldn't let anyone sit next to me because they would squash Jesus.

What does it say for a pair of 74 yr olds who have a large amount of teddies, and talk to them? We have conversations with the cats as well. My neighbour laughs when she sees my OH feeding the pond fish because he talks to them, telling some they are greedy and to leave some for the little ones.

Persephone: That is an interesting question. There is no reason at all why they should not have imaginary friends but do they have shared imaginary friends? I guess only a twin can answer that.
Certainly it has been proved (at Manchester and other universities) that identical twins (and triplets etc) have shared consciousnesses and tests with EEC machines prove that separated, identical twins will simultaneously share a sensation administered to one of them.

Thanks Len.

My husbands cousins are twins in their eighties and whilst they look less like each other their mannerisms are so much alike.

I know of one family where the twins shared a cot and when it came time for them to have single beds, they were found each morning lying on the floor together in the middle of the room.

There was a case where twins were separated at birth - and years later found each other and the similarities in their thoughts and what had happened with them was staggering.

Triplets - you often find two that are alike and the other one is often left out. It does not always happen but can often be the case.

Watching Robert Winston with children at different stages of their lives was interesting, and amongst them he had twins and triplets but I can't remember whether they discussed imaginary friends.

Perse

I have a couple of Robert Winston's books. He is excellent in his own field but a bit blinkered otherwise.

That we all think we know the physical world so well is the result of thousands of years of developing beliefs and the conditioning of each generation by earlier ones. Now modern science is slowly but surely unravelling the truths of the void, their minds are slowly meeting the minds of philosophers of old, who got a lot wrong, but may have got it right over the big picture.

In a BBC survey, 68% of interviewed adults admitted to having had what they thought were paranormal experiences. Others described experiences which they put down to mental aberrations because they could not admit to the existence of paranormal phenomena.
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Throughout the world, most races predominately are adherent to a spiritually-based sectarian religion which they are prepared to defend with fervour or even violence. But admit to believing in the occult? Not on your life! Humans are complicated beings but, as Mr Spock observed, entirely illogical.

And my husband reckons I do not learn anything on here. I am amazed at the various threads. He thinks they are all chatter but I do quite often glean some interesting bits of information which I copy and save.

Thanks Len for an interesting topic for discussion.

Persey