This site is dedicated to imagined worlds or paracosms Children make up stories all the time.  They are forever inventing settings and scenarios for their games, and many of us had imaginary friends.  However, this site is about something rather different and (perhaps) relatively uncommon - a work of imagination which is sustained over months or often years rather than days.  If you had one of these worlds you will have returned again and again over a very long period, developing and enriching it at each visit.  A whole society may have emerged. More about imagined worlds in general.   You may still have your world, which you may be reluctant to tell people about. I should very much like to hear from anyone who had or has a paracosm or who has studied them.  I am especially interested in how people might use or might have used paracosms as a resource in their lives. I am also very committed to countering any tendency to pathologise this type of creative activity. Mike Crook