Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
As paranormal events go, this one really stands out. It stands out, perhaps, because we’ve never heard of anything quite like it. There are no UFOs to speak of, nobody’s claimed a terrifying ape-man encounter deep in the woods, and as far as we can tell nobody’s gotten ghost-hickeys.
Ask our Aunt Sally about the hickeys.
Today’s topic is a man who has appeared in everybody’s dream.
There appears to be some very strange epidemic wherein one man is being seen in the dreams of people all over the world.
You’re probably wondering exactly how anybody could possibly know that their dream phantom looks exactly like one who haunts the night-fantasies of so many others. The answer is simple – from ThisMan.org:
“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.”
Not everybody who sees This Man is necessarily getting life changing advice from him. Some people are just flying through the air with him at their side. Some see him escorting them out of a shopping mall with a confusing floor plan, and still others find themselves making sweet, sticky love to him all day long forever and ever.
Or something.
Some say he’s a human being who’s somehow obtained the ability to project himself into people’s dreams anywhere in the world. Some say while doing so he can change his appearance so that he’d never be recognised in the street. Still other’s think it’s God himself gracing the sleep-time of mortals across the globe.
Our theory is that Israel is somehow behind all this, and they’re doing it to eventually get all westerners attracted to sheep.
That’s not really our theory, but those guys sure catch flack, don’t they?
Now you all know that we here at hecklerspray are truly dedicated to getting multiple sources for absolutely every story we ever tell you. This time, however, we’re not going to do that because there are three bats perched in an office corner behind us and the closest broom is two floors down.
We’re a bit panicked, you understand.
As such, we’ll close out today’s story with a bunch of alleged first hand encounter quotes from the same website we just used.
Again, it’s from ThisMan.org:
“I have had this recurrent dream for some years now. A tall, dark man shows me a picture and asks me if I can recognise my father in it. The man in the picture is this man I have never seen before, he looks nothing like my dad, nevertheless I inexplicably answer that I do recognize my father. At this point I usually wake up feeling very peaceful. Other times the dream continues, I am standing before my father’s grave, I place some flowers on the ground and I realise the photograph on the tombstone is missing.”
“I fell in love with him from the very first time I saw him in my dream. Even though if I think about it I must admit he’s really ugly. And yet each and every time, he sweeps me off my feet with his romantic gestures and sweet words. He buys me flowers, jewellery, he takes me out to dinner or to the beach to watch the sunset.”
“I have always had this dream of flying in the sky over my city and observing my friends from up there. Since I moved to another house I started meeting this man while flying. Not every single time that I have this dream about flying, but often enough. He flies too, but he never speaks.”
“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 have never had homosexual relationships or even fantasies. But I dream about having sexing with this man all the time. I must admit he has a lot of imagination and he pleases me. Sometimes when I wake up I discover I have had a nocturnal emission.”
“I saw this man in my dream, dressed as Santa Klaus. When he showed up I felt so happy, just like when I was a little girl. Then he smiled at me and his head became a balloon,floating in the air above me, but no matter how hard I tried to catch it, I just couldn’t reach it.”
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’ve several bats to pin to the ground, trap in a bag and toss out a window.
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Sunny says
johnny says
sorry this is a marketing plan for the new nightmare on elm street remake.
halo3v says
johnny is correct, but I can’t figure how they managed to register it as a .org? something doesn’t add up…
oddly enough the usually dig sites show posts on it, but many are complaining if the word MARKETING is mentioned the posts get blocked or disabled..
halo says
finally got the registrant IP
Registrant Email:[email protected]
Guerilla marketing IT, which is http://www.rhizome.org/discuss/view/26577
Also worth noting, 3 days before thisman showed up on Facebook, Guerilla Marketings page was shut down.
The lengths hollywood will go to try and make sure they don’t lose money on the “new nightmare” may actually be scarier than the movie itself?!
nedja says
I ‘ve been dreaming this man for a while, untill last year I think. He was following me thru my dreams, always standing behind my back and annoying me with his some kind of advices. In one of my dreams I was so upset and afraid, becouse I realised that I am dreaming him repeatedly and I took a gun and shot him in the head. He was wearing a shirt and grey sweater with buttons or a grey jacket. I was very suprised with my reaction and told what happend to several people who are into “paranormal”. I’m not dreaming him since then. I can not believe that he was good person, becouse anyone with abbility to enter someons dream would do it in subtle way, so no one would be affraid of him.
Anna says
So, I’ve been hearing about this on facebook for a while. And I decided to google it. And honestly, this face, doesn’t even ring a bell. Usually, I can think of some little thing, but…nothing. Hmm. Maybe he’ll eventually appear, especialy since I’ve seen the face now.
And it might because I can only remember about ten of my dreams, but like I said, it would probably ring a bell.
lexie says
Thats so freaky. As soon as a i saw that picture i was autimatically freaked out. He reminds me of cerial killer or something bad. I recongized him for sure but cant recall exactly what dreams he has been in mine but i know all of the ones he was in were terrible.
tinker bell says
yeah! freaking, im so freaking scared, i freaking dont even wanna sleep now, im freaking scared, i’ll proabably freaking sleep with me mom tonight. FREAKING!!!!
I FREAKING LOVE ape men, but not that freakin ape man. no freakin no. ughh ughh, not in my dreams. freaking. byee.
shit head says
SHITTTTT HEADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!! I SAW HIM YESTERDAY AT WALMART! HE WAS GETTING YOGURT AND TAMPONS
hombre says
why doesnt my parakeet eat my shit? good fucking question is what it is home boy..
solomon king says
comic people call this man in the dream as the killer, even a serial one. If you want to find a killer go look at your father’s face. you will find a killer there. idiots…
Laith says
I held my laughter so hard … looooooool .. i will get fired from work for this :P