Have you Dreamed about this man?
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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 Dehli, 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.
The aim of this website is:
- to help those who have seen this man in their dreams and to foster communication among them;
- to understand who this man is and why he appears in an apparently pattern-less array of situations in the dreams of such diverse human subjects.
- designbot0
an Angel?
- scarabin0
i call bullshit
- locustsloth0
i thought it was already established that this was some sort of viral campign. Guerilla marketers or some something
- gramme0
balding man-child with unibrow? Looks rather Armenian if you ask me, but his mouth is like Carol from Where the Wild Things Are.
- El_Montr00
Dreams are grey...
- MHDC0
- kgvs720
I don't remember my dreams.
- SteveJobs0
semantically, "nightmare" would probably be a better descriptor. with his grisly eyebrows, large molesting eyes, and that wide slithery smile, "this man" is clearly the utter essense of all things foul and evil. the very image a childs deepest fear would conjure up.
- locustsloth0
All this really means that Italian “guerrilla marketer” Andrea Natella is pretty good at what he does, except for that whole private domain registration thingy. Because Natella is the guy who registered the site on January 24, 2009. And Andrea Natella doesn’t hide what he does from the curious surfer who learns his name.
He’s a “sociologist specializing in marketing” and once wrote an article about the “origins of the subversive use of the hoax in Italy.” He runs GuerrigliaMarketing.it, where he defines “Guerrilla Marketing” as “a set of non-conventional communication techniques that achieves maximum visibility with minimum investment.” Natella also states on his site that the “memetic virus can replicate itself in the minds of consumers.”
- iheartfun0
FAKE AS BALLONBOY
- locustsloth0
What would really be interesting is if this person who put up this site was actually trying to access peoples dreams by putting himself in them. He plasters his own image all over the place, saying that this guy gets in peoples dreams. Lots of people believe it and pretty soon they ARE all dreaming about this guy.
And what if all that subconscious energy actually gives some sort of power to this dude?
Now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to the tin mines. Lots of hats to make, doncha know.- you gonna pass that spliff or whatscarabin
- You don't think of <--that sort of bullshit by sharing, brotherlocustsloth
- locustsloth0
For what it's worth, i dog-eared teh first response to this thread because, fake or no fake, that drawing of the guy freaks me the fuck out
- it should, your precognition is telling you he'll be 'visiting' you soon in your dreams. good luck.SteveJobs
- LOLlocustsloth
- CALLES0
if i see him in my dreams i will make sure i say hello and thank him for all his humanitarian work and ask him if he wants to play connect four
- randommail0
seriously one of the most disturbing images I've ever seen.
If I end up dreaming about this guy, I will be pissed!
- randommail0
It's a brilliant drawing though I must say.
Never has there been an illustration of a man that has conjured up such a specific profile.You ask 1000 people and every single one of them will respond with "he's a child molester or rapist!!"