Natella has received thousands letters and emails from people about who they think This Man resembles, ranging from fictional characters like The Man from Another Place (from Twin Peaks) and the dummy (from The Twilight Zone), to real public figures such as Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Stephen Hawking. Īn actual living human that looked like This Man was never identified. In a 2015 interview with Vice, site creator Andrea Natella explained that he first dreamt of This Man in the winter of 2008, wherein the man "invited to create a website to find an answer to his own appearance." Following This Man's instructions, Natella created the website, including an identikit image of This Man created using the mobile app Ultimate Flash Face. There were some recurring themes in his messages, such as telling dreamers to "go North."
His voice was also unidentifiable due to the fact that he rarely spoke, as well as the difficulty in remembering sounds in dreams versus images. His relationship with the dreamer varied between accounts in one, he was the dreamer's father, while in another, he was a schoolteacher from Brazil with six fingers on his right hand. Īnonymous stories from alleged witnesses vary in his behavior and actions in their dreams, whose content ranges from romantic or sexual fantasies, to attacking and killing the dreamer, to giving cryptic life advice. Since then, more than 8,000 people from cities across the world such as Los Angeles, Berlin, São Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Delhi, and Moscow, claimed to have seen the man while sleeping. Several days later, another of the psychiatrist's patients recognized the drawing and said he was a figure in his dreams as well the psychiatrist sent the image to fellow professionals, and collected the testimony of four more people who claimed to recognize the man. According to the Ever Dream This Man? website, the first image of This Man was sketched in January 2006 by a "well-known psychiatrist in New York," based on the descriptions of a patient who claims he was a recurring subject in dreams, despite never knowing a man like him in real life. Reported evidence of This Man appearing in dreams allegedly goes back to the 1980s. Natella said that he was inspired by the concept of dream invasion, which he had encountered in some movies and books, and that he wanted to explore the power of the internet to create and spread urban legends and collective myths. Natella admitted that he had fabricated the whole story and that he had based the original sketch of This Man on a photo of his father when he was young. It was later exposed that This Man was a hoax, and was actually a guerrilla marketing campaign by Natella's advertising agency.
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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 by Weekly Shonen Magazine. The website gained attention from the press and online users in October 2009 and became a viral sensation. None of these theories were supported by any evidence or investigation. The website offered various possible explanations for the phenomenon, ranging from the mundane to the supernatural. The website also claimed that more than 3,000 people had contacted the site to share their stories and drawings of This Man.
The website claimed that the first person who reported dreaming about This Man was a patient of a psychiatrist in New York City in 2006, and that four other patients of the same had also recognized the same face. He was the main focus of a website called Ever Dream This Man?, created by Italian sociologist and marketer Andrea Natella in 2008.
This Man is a person who has allegedly appeared in thousands of people's dreams since 2006, but has never been identified in the real world.
The original "This Man" drawing, as published by Andrea Natella in 2008 For the Jeremy Camp song, see This Man (song). For the Cory Marks album, see This Man (album).
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