They are like negative numbers. You can have 1 apple, but you can not have -1 apples. You can owe +1 apple, and say that you therefore have -1 apples. So -1 doe

They are like negative numbers. You can have 1 apple, but you can not have -1 apples. You can owe +1 apple, and say that you therefore have -1 apples. So -1 does exist as a number, but it is a representation of something that is happening with a positive number. And the "i" is similar to this. Maybe calling it "perpendicular" would have been better suited, because imaginary is really confusing.