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| “ | EVER DREAM THIS MAN? | „ |
| ~ The line that used in posters, website and FaceBook page. |
This Man, also known as Dream Man, is the main antagonist of the conceptual art project and internet urban legend Ever Dream This Man? by Italian sociologist and marketer Andrea Natella.
According to original story, In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams who she was never saw and giving her advices. Later other patients also recognize the man from their dream and refer to him as THIS MAN and after some times, www.thisman.org founds to help people.
Dreams[]
Original Dreams[]
In first dream, a tall and dark Man shows the dreamer a picture of This Man and ask him if he/she recognize his/her father despite being both of them unrelated. The Dreamer always says same despite knowing that its not and always wake up peacefully.
In second dream, This Man makes a woman fall in love with him and haves romantic relationship with her.
In third dream, This Man simply flies but never speaks.
İn fourth dream, This Man suddenly appears in mall and chases the dreamer for like one hour and shows the way out towards the cash desks and wakes up the dreamer.
In fifth dream, This Man haves sexual activity in both real-life and dream with a dreamer who never interested in heterosexual relation, possibly raped him.
In sixth dream, This Man appears to a little girl as Santa Klaus and turns his head into a balloon.
In seventh dream, after dreamer attacked by two people, This Man appears and firstly psychologically tortures the person and kills the person without any emotion.
FaceBook Dreams[]
| NOTE: Since FaceBook page keeps adding new dreams, only some of them will be added. |
In Iran, after a person sleeps, the person encounters with This Man, This Man makes him a decision by the doors and put him to sleep paralysis so the person can't escape and after the person chooses door and wakes up, his whole personality changes, his happy feeling were completely gone for forever and he always feels pain in their arms.
In United States of America, This Man recurringly appears in the dream of a person and quickly kills them if they made noise. This happen for 20 times and later This Man changes its behavior against the person and gones for likely forever.
In another dream from USA, This Man stalks the children from playground.
Theories[]
For explaining the situation, officially some theories were invented among the dreamers themselves.
Archetype Theory[]
Jung’s psychoanalytic theory suggest that This Man is an archetypal image belonging to the collective unconscious that can surface in times of hardship in particularly sensitive subjects, something similar similar to Hatman.
Religious Theory[]
This theory suggests that This Man is actually The Creator aka God itself, theorized to be one of the forms in which God manifests himself today.
Dream Surfer Theory[]
This theory suggest that This Man is a real person, who can enter people’s dreams by some of specific psychological skills. Some people believe that he is look same in real-life while some people say it looks completely different. There is also some people suggest that This Man is actually a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.
Dream Imitation Theory[]
This theory suggests that "This Man" phenomenon has arisen casually and has progressively developed by imitations. Basically when people are exposed to This Man they become so deeply impressed that they later starts seeing This Man.
Daytime Recognition Theory[]
This theory also suggest that the phenomenon has existed, arised and developed casually but with some differences. Normally people are not remembering their dreams so This Man facilitates recognition of an undefined oneirical images we are sawing.
Origin[]
This Man and Ever Dream This Man are created by by Italian sociologist and marketer Andrea Natella in 2008. The story layer gained widespread attention and suspicions about the phenomenon being real or not by people of some platforms such as 4chan, ASSME, io9 and etc.. The people later found that www.thisman.org's hosting company owned another domain named "guerrigliamarketing.it", a fake advertising agency founded by Natella that designed subversive hoaxes/legends and created weird art projects exploring pornography, politics, and advertising.
In 2010, on the website of KOOK Artgency, Natella made a post. In post, he confirmed that he was the creator of the whole This Man thing and all of them were just fake. He also said that This Man was inspired from appearance of his own father, he was inspired by the concept of dream invasion he saw in movies and that he wanted to explore the power of the internet to create and spread urban legends. Despite its never confirmed, sources like The Kernel said the phenomenon was almost 100% a guerrilla marketing campaign for Bertino and Ghost House's film, The Strangers.
The reason why some people saw him in their dream is because we saw him and learned the fact that he can enter people's dreams can affect some people and enter our subconscious and make these people seeing him in their dreams.
Other Media[]
This Man (2018)[]
- Main article: This Man (This Man: Sono Kao wo Mita Mono ni wa Shi wo)
This Man (2024)[]
- Main article: This Man (2024)
Have You Seen This Man?[]
Despite official story listed as a creepypasta, user DrayMD also wroted its own This Man creepypasta named "Have You Seen This Man?". In story, This Man serves as the main antagonist.
The story begins with the protagonist saying he was different as a kid but one day, something that he can't forget happened.
January 1st, 1994[]
Before January 1st, 1994, the protagonist always wanted to be a veterinarian and loved animals. The protagonist also wanted to have a pet but he/she was never got any pet due to his/her parents but still the parents were good people. In the november, their parents but the protagonist a small puppy and the protagonist names him Theo. The protagonist was loved so much and he/she was taked every responsibility for dog.
On January 1st, 1994, at around 10:00am, the protagonist wakes up, goes to kitchen and eat foods that his/her mother maked in short time. Then protagonist hears the sound of the mail truck and goes to open the door. As soon as the protagonist opened it, Theo took off as fast as he could. Then the protagonist wears his/her jacket and exits from house and finds that Theo hadn't even left the front yard and front yard was blocked by "Him" (This Man). This Man stares at the protagonist blank and then stares at Theo. This Man later hold Theo by the scruff and puts the protagonist into a state that he can't talk and move then kills Theo with a knife that he took of and keeps stare at the protagonist before leaving.
After This Man leaves, the protagonist turns normal and wants to cry but he couldn't do that. Later the protagonist mom comes to screen with screaming.
Aftermath of the First Occurrence[]
In the following months, the parents forces the protagonist into seeing a psychiatrist. When asked why he/she killed Theo, protagonist tries to tell him that it wasn't him/her and tell him about This Man. The psychiatrist wasn't buying it and smugly ask him/her how This Man looked like and the protagonist notice that he couldn't define it and just slumps into the chair.
The protagonist tells the reader that This Man is real, he always sees him, and This Man always watching.
Jigoku Sensei Nūbē Neo[]
In Jigoku Sensei Nūbē Neo, the sequel of Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube, This Man appears as one of the Yokais. He was a prisoner who's on death row. For avoid dying, he messed his own body that caused him to put himself on persistent vegetative state and turned his soul into a Yokai and granted by the ability to go through anyone's dreams. He later gets popular and turns into one of "10 Most Mysterious Thing Happened in the World".
Later This Man starts to enter the dreams of Seira Udzuki and hide himself in there. One day while Seira sllep in class, This Man appears and tells her that he is not a monster but he is a person who kicked out from his body and the only way to turn back into his body is appearing in the dreams (all of this are just lies). Seirs wants to help him but This Man attacks her and reveals his real side. He tries to fuse his soul together with her so he will forever be living on Seira's body but Meisuke Nueno stops it and saves Seira. Then This Man just ran away to his original body and dies.
The X-Files[]
In the season 11 of X-Files, This Man appears a lot and is actually key to solve the whole season. He appears at least 6 time in whole season.
Lucid Dream[]
In 2017 Netflix South Korean science fiction film Lucid Dream, This Man pop up at 9:28.
STAT[]
In the 2022 Canadian French medical drama TV series Stat, a scene in an office of the Canadian Secret Services features a poster of This Man in a bulletin board.
Dylan Dog #355[]
The Oath (2017)[]
In the 2017 Turkish action and drama TV series The Oath, This Man makes similar appearance like how he did in Stat. In a sad scene, drawing of This Man appears in a bulletin board.
External Links[]
- This Man on the Wikipedia
- This Man on the Know Your Meme
- This Man on the Creepypasta
- This Man on the CreepyPasta Too Wiki
- This Man on the Creepypasta Wiki
- This Man on the Jigoku Sensei Nube Wiki
