The Imaginary World

Zac often talks about his imaginary friends. I used to think that kids with imaginary friends just didn't have any real friends, but since I know that isn't the case, I'm not as worried as I would have been about ten years ago. However, my smiles and and inner joy about Zac's imaginary friends took an odd turn today, and here is why:
I was cleaning the bathroom, and Zac came in and started telling me about his imaginary friends' home. His said their world was amazing, because nothing cost money. It became a Q & A because at first I thought he was going all socialist on me, or at least I wondered if he'd read Stephanie Meyers' "The Host".

Z: Imaginary world is better, nothing has a price.
M:Oh, then how do you know what things are worth?
Z: Well, if you need something, you just go into the big storehouse and get it.
M:Who puts it on the shelves?
Z: The dads. They work all day making what is needed.
M: And no one pays them to do this work? What motivates them to do the work?
Z: They do it because they know that if they or their family needs anything they can come get it, and they would want their family to get good stuff, so they make their stuff good.
M: What do the moms do?
Z: They teach the children.
M: Who plants the gardens?
Z: I don't know.
M: How do you know all of this about imaginary land?
Z: When I was in your tummy, two of my imaginary friends came and told me all about where they were from.
M: And they are from imaginary land?
Z: Yes. But, Mom, it's not imaginary because it isn't real, it's imaginary because it is the land that was created before the earth. In the mind. It was made first.
M: So imaginary land is a real place? Just like here?
Z: Yes, only better. Where my friends say things are without price. That means I wouldn't need my quarters from the tooth fairy. Right mom?
M: Have you ever seen your friends?
Z: No, you can't see them, you just can hear them. Everyone could hear them if they tried, they are telling us what it can be like.

By this time, I'm a little speechless. Just sitting and thinking, and Zac runs off to play, like it wasn't a weird conversation at all.