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  2. Imaginary friend - Wikipedia

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    Caliban has a conversation with his imaginary friends in Folger Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.. Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends, invisible friends or made-up friends) are a psychological and a social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than physical reality.

  3. Tulpa - Wikipedia

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    Influenced by depictions in television and cinema from the 1990s and 2000s, the term tulpa started to be used to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend. [9] Practitioners consider tulpas to be sentient and relatively autonomous. [4] Online communities dedicated to tulpas spawned on the 4chan and Reddit websites. These communities refer to ...

  4. 'Pataphysics - Wikipedia

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    One definition of 'pataphysics is that it is "a branch of philosophy or science that examines imaginary phenomena that exist in a world beyond metaphysics; it is the science of imaginary solutions." [ 7 ] Jean Baudrillard defines 'pataphysics as "the imaginary science of our world, the imaginary science of excess, of excessive, parodic ...

  5. Imaginary audience - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon stems from egocentrism and is closely related to another topic called 'personal fable' (personal fable involves a sense of uniqueness). Imaginary audience effects are not a neurological disorder, but more a personality or developmental stage of life.

  6. Imaginary (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the imaginary has attracted attention in anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and media ...

  7. 'Imaginary' ending explained: What's real and what's ... - AOL

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    The horror movie “Imaginary” adds a new toy to the growing list of harmless-turned-creepy childhood figures. This time, instead of a doll, it's Chauncey the teddy bear. This time, instead of a ...

  8. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  9. Paracosm - Wikipedia

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    Manuscript by Emily Brontë that contains poems about Gondal, a paracosm. A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world thought generally to originate in childhood. The creator of a paracosm has a complex and deeply felt relationship with this subjective universe, which may incorporate real-world or imaginary characters and conventions.