This Man?

## This Man by Andrea Natella and others

(Note: The following creepypasta is a mixture of posts from the official This Man website and the official This Man Facebook page.)

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. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist’s desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN. From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Delhi, Moskow etc.

At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Moreover, no living man has ever been recognized as resembling the man of the portrait by the people who have seen this man in their dreams. H

Here are some examples of reported dreams involving This Man:

*"I remember this dream more vividly than the rest. About a year ago for a couple nights in a row, I dreamed that an escaped prisoner got into my house and tried to kill my entire family. I distinctly remember in my dream walking to the front door to lock it and seeing his face at the other side of the patio door. His face resembled '"this man".*

*"I dreamed that I was on a school trip, and we were in a college inside a forest. A girl was missing, the police, the teachers, and kids were looking for her everywhere. I needed a pair of new headphones, so I went alone in the forest to reach the nearest city. It was night and suddenly I saw a light. It was a house, and a man was painting the walls with very red blood. He raised his head and looked at me, smiling, and his eyes were bright. I ran away, told the police and the teachers, but no one believed me. I knew he was the murderer."*

*"The first time I had a dream about this man I was having a hard time at work. I had a dream about getting lost in a huge and deserted shopping mall. Suddenly this man appeared, and I started running away from him. He chased after me for what seemed like an hour until I found myself against a wall in the kids' area in a supermarket. At this point he smiled at me, and he showed me the way out towards the cash desks, and I woke up. Ever since that night this man has appeared in all of my dreams, and he always gives me directions to get out of the dream and wake up."*

*"I dreamt this man was in my mirror watching me, saying nothing, and he was wearing glasses. He never moved the entire time I saw him, he was like a statue, so still."*

*"I'm from the Uk and I always dream of this man. Sometimes, the dreams are so traumatizing that I get sick when I see his face. One time, I had a dream where I was sitting on a red sofa in a very dim room and this man walked in and sat down next to me. He was just staring at me, and I couldn't move or speak. When he finally spoke to me, he told me to choose between my best friend, my mother and my brother. I choose my best friend. I didn't know what was going on. He smiled at me, then my best friend appeared in front of me, and he burned her alive. I remember this dream so clearly because it felt so real, and ever since then I can't get his face out of my head. I don't know what to do."*

*"I once dreamed that I was in my bedroom. I felt that feeling like someone was watching me. I looked down my window and saw a man in a park looking at me and he just smiled. I went downstairs from my building to see if he is down there. Suddenly, the lights went off and it was dark. When I turned on the light again, I saw him. He said, 'Hi, little boy.' I started running and when I turned my head, he was there staring at me and saying, 'I won't hurt you little boy.' I slipped and fell, and he put his hand on my face and said, 'It will all be all right.' For some reason he started screaming when I screamed. Then I woke up."*

*"Hi. So, I noticed this portrait on the internet about ‘The Man’ and people seeing him in their dreams. I had a dream once that this guy was trying to murder me and my family whilst we were in a hotel. The dream consisted of him chasing us around the hotel with a knife, trying to get into our car we were hiding in and throwing axes at the reception door that we were trying to keep closed and locked. People mainly say that he gives them advice about their personal lives, but I just think it’s weird how my dream is different compared to what they say."*

*"Hi, my name is Jeb and I've been following this whole thing with this man for a while now. I've always found it fascinating but was never really involved in the fan community, but last night I had a dream with this man and I couldn't stop thinking about it. In my dream, I was at work (I am a receptionist at a clinic) when he walked through the door. I recognized him in the dream and stood up frantically, pointing at him and saying, "You're the guy!" He just calmly walked towards me and put both of his hands on my desk. He then said, "Come with me," in a relaxing voice. I followed him out the door and he led me to a nearby warehouse which looked abandoned. "What are we doing here?" I asked him.*

*He slowly turned around and beckoned towards the black doorway. I walked inside to find a man lying on the concrete floor. He had a blindfold on, his hands were bound behind his back with rope, and he had a bloody and bruised body. "Who is this?" I asked. This man walked up beside me and replied, "The man you see is one who has done bad things. He needs to be punished for what he's done." The man on the floor squirmed around and screamed, "Please! I have a family, a beautiful wife, four children, two dogs, a respectable job! Please don't hurt me!" (I can't remember word for word what he said, but I think it was something pretty close to this.)*

*I asked this man if I was supposed to hurt the man on the floor and he nodded slowly. I didn't want to, but I knew that I had to do it. "How do you want me to punish him?" I asked. This man responded, "You have two large hands that will do the job just fine." I then proceeded to strangle the man with my bare hands and after about a minute, he died.*

*I looked at this man wondering what to do next and he told me that I was truly loyal and that it was a test. Then he started to walk over to the set of stairs in the corner of the room and my alarm clock went off, ending the dream. I am deeply disturbed by this dream, and I am wondering if anyone else has had a dream like this. Do you guys have dreams where this man is good or evil?"*

Several theories have been developed to explain the mysteriously recurring presence of this man in the dreams of different people who are not related in any way. The following theories are the ones that elicit the greatest interest among the dreamers themselves.

**ARCHETYPE THEORY**

According to Jung's psychoanalytic theory, this man is an archetypal image belonging to the collective unconscious that can surface in times of hardship (emotional development, dramatic changes in our lives, stressful circumstances etc.) in particularly sensitive subjects.

**RELIGIOUS THEORY**

According to this theory this man is the image of the Creator, that is to say one of the forms in which God manifests himself today. This is the reason why his indications and the words he utters during the dreams should be decidedly followed by the dreamers.

**DREAM SURFER THEORY**

It is the most interesting theory and the one that has the greatest implications, but it has also the lowest scientific credibility. According to this theory this man is a real person, who can enter people's dreams by means of specific psychological skills. Some believe that in real life this man looks like the man in the dreams. Others think that the man in the dreams looks completely different from his real-life counterpart. Some people seem to believe that behind this man there is a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.

**DREAM IMITATION THEORY**

This is a scientific psycho-sociological theory which claims that this phenomenon has arisen casually and has progressively developed by imitation. Basically, when people are exposed to this phenomenon, they become so deeply impressed that they start seeing this man in their dreams.

**DAYTIME RECOGNITION THEORY**

This theory states that the apparitions of this man are purely casual. Normally we do not remember precisely the faces we see in our dreams. The image of this man would thus be an instrument which, in the subject's waking life, facilitates recognition of an undefined oneirical image.