Main topic of the movie Hide and Seek, starred by Robert De Niro, do children really have imaginary friends?

According to many psychologists, the answer is yes, and the percentage of cases all around the world reveals this is more common than we imagine, it means, it is not only this or that kid who says they talk to people no one else can see. The number seems to be huge.

The question we raise, though, is another one: – The supposedly imaginary friends come from their minds or are they the real thing that adults cannot see but children not only see but also talk to them, as do these incarnated friends?

Seeing mediumship, which Allan Kardec studied thoroughly in the items 100 and 190 on The Mediums’ Book, is a normal conversation topic in the field of Spiritism.

This faculty, which depends on the physical organization of the medium, allows one to see the Spirits while one is awake. As the mediumistic phenomena do not occur without the authorization of Spirits of High Degree, of course there are those who let be seen and others who do not, which does not mean we are alone, because the disincarnated ones frequently surround us.

A study done by Dr. H. Bouley about the evolution of Rabies in dogs, which experience during these seizures a kind of delirium, Kardec examined the phenomenon of seeing disincarnated people just like what happens to little kids and some animals, mainly dogs and horses, concluding that, as for the kids, this kind of mediumship is frequent, not to say general. (Spiritist Magazine 1865, p. 260 - 264.)

The existence of this mediumship, according to the Spirits, was the first of all faculties given to men to interact with the invisible world. In all times and all peoples, religious creeds have been established about revelations from visionary people or seeing mediums. The Spiritist Magazine of 1866, p. 120 - 123, talks about it.

The story of a four-year kid, verified in Caen, led Kardec to realize that this mediumship was, effectively, very common in kids, and this, according to the Compiler, had a reason. “As they left the spiritual life, explained Kardec, the kid’s guide takes him to the disembarking port for the earthly life, as he comes to pick him up in his return. The kids can see them in the first times, so that the move is not so abrupt; after they fade away little by little, as the kid grows and can act according to his free will.” (Spiritist Magazine 1866, p. 286 - 287.)

So, no one needs to be scared when they see their kids talking to “friends” they claim to see, but, we cannot.

Until he turns seven, the kid’s Spirit is in an adaptation stage for a new existence and there is not perfect integration between him and the organic matter yet, so he can, sometimes, see disincarnated ones who keep him company, what allows us to suppose that imaginary friends of our kids are not that imaginary. They are just invisible.