Paracosm
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A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world thought generally to originate in childhood. Their conception is spontaneous, and the creator of a paracosm has a complex and deeply felt relationship with thi
Manuscript by Emily Brontë that contains poems about Gondal, a paracosm
Imaginary friend
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Imaginary friends are a psychological and a social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than physical reality.
Paracosm
…paracosms after the deaths of family members. Marjorie Taylor is another child development psychologist who explores paracosms as part of a study on imaginary friends. She found a prevalence of paracosms of 17.2% in children aged 8-12 in two studies of 169 participants in total. In Adam Gopnik's essay "Bumping Into…
Caliban has a conversation with his imaginary friends in Folger Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.