This Man

**This Man**, is a person who has allegedly appeared in thousands of people's dreams since 2006, but was never identified in the real world. He was the main focus of a website called *Ever Dream This Man?* According to a website created in 2008 by Italian marketer Andrea Natella named Ever Dream This Man?, was a person (who is not real) who was claimed to have been repeatedly seen in dreams by the whole world since 2006, but was never found in the real world. Natella created the site in 2008, but it was not until October 2009 that it gained attention from the press and online internet users. This Man's notoriety spawned several internet memes that spoofed flyers of the website, references in films and television shows like The X-Files, and a manga series based on the hoax by Weekly Shonen Magazine.

According to the storyline, later on, more than 2,000 people from other major cities across the world such as Los Angeles, Berlin, São Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, London, Rome, Dhaka, Barcelona, Durban, Stockholm, Guadalajara, Bangkok, Lagos, Ottawa, Paris, Riyadh, Singapore City, Tokyo, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombia and Moscow claimed to have seen the man while sleeping. Stories from those who dreamed him, who remained anonymous, suggest he was a Brazilian school teacher who had six fingers on his right hand. These dreamers' experiences of the man varied from romantic, sexual, violence, crime, corruption, deadly situations to flying with the man to just seeing him staring at the dreamer and doing nothing.

Andrea Natella, when interviewed by Vice magazine for an article that took the myth seriously (thus making Natella answer the questions as if for real), explained that he first dreamed This Man before he was aware of who he really was; it was in the winter of 2008, and This Man, "invited [him] to create a website to find an answer to his own appearance." Following This Man's instructions, he not only made the site but also produced the mysterious man's identikit using the mobile device application Ultimate Flash Face.

An actual living human that looked like This Man was never identified, and there were some who dreamed of him who had no relationship with others also seeing him in their dreams. His voice was also unidentifiable, as it is much harder for someone to remember the audio part of a dream than the visual; it was also rare for him to speak in the dreams. However, Natella claimed that he received letters and emails that compared This Man's look to that of fictional characters such as The Man from Another Place and The Dummy and famous real-life figures such as Andrew Lloyd Webber. He also claimed that some, including an Indian guru named Arud Kannan Ayya, claimed themselves to be This Man, but with no evidence.

ThisMan.org suggested five theories of the phenomena:

* This Man was an example of Carl Jung's concept of the unconscious "archetypal image" people see during very difficult life situations.
* This Man was a manifestation of God.
* A corporation was mentally conditioning multiple people to dream the same man.
* Some people dreamt the man only after learning about others seeing him.
* Because it is hard for humans to remember people's faces in dreams, people are inaccurately using Natella's identikit of This Man to describe the person in their recurring dreams.