[b]Subject Post #18:[/b] [i]Ever Dream This Man?[/i] Hello there, Shadow here with another myth. This time I am proud to say I am doing a real life myth and I sincerely hope I have enough room in this 10,000 character post to fit all the information I had planned to fit in. The real life myth in question is the "Ever Dream This Man" (go to Gallery for a link to the website) and essentially what it is is a kind of strange happening in which many people across the globe have dreamed an identical man. Spooky, eh? This myth has been brought up a lot in the thread since it was born and I realized what better time to analyse it then now when the thread is struggling to find new myths. That's right! There is no better time. So, from the bottom of my heart, I wish you the very best in reading this myth and I thank you for sticking with me over the past three months. I am proud to have made most of you the mythians you are now. [b]History:[/b] The whole myth started in 2006 when a female came to her psychiatrist asking for assistance with her dreams. She, basically, explained to the doctor that she had been seeing "this man" (as she referred to him) as a frequent guest in most of her dreams. She drew a portrait for the doctor too. "This man", allegedly, helped said female with her private life. It is also important to note that the female in question said that she had never met the man in real life before. A couple days/weeks later another patient of the psychiatrist noticed the portrait and explained to the doctor that he too has been visited by the same man in his dreams. He, too, referred to the man as "this man". The doctor decided to send the portrait to a couple of colleagues to see what information he could gather. What he did gather startled even himself. His colleagues had found another two instances of people meeting "this man" in their dreams. Since then, January 2006, there have been several thousand confirmed sightings of "this man" in peoples dreams. These people have no pattern or anything. They are of different origins, different skin tones, different cities, different everything. There is no clear indicator as to what may be going on here in the minds of citizens across the globe in terms of "this man". This is truly one of the spookiest myths ever conceived or one of the greatest hoaxes ever concocted. [b]Theories:[/b] There are quite a lot of different theories as to what "this man" symbolizes. Religious, Conspiracy and Scientific theories are plentiful whilst other less believable theories are just as present (IE; The Aliens, man!). There are, however, five main theories conceived by professionals to try to better understand "this man". [i]Archetype Theory: [/i] This theory is basically the theory that this man is an image belonging to the collective subconscious of all human beings. Basically, what is says is that when humans are hard pressed (IE; Scared, Angry, Dissapointed, Clueless) then "this man" will appear in their dreams as a "blank" slate for a human being to offer assistance and advice. Basically, he is a blank human AI being apparition style thing. [i]Religious Theory:[/i] This theory says that "this man" is one of the many manifestations of the Lord himself. Religious experts say God appears in dreams of his followers as "this man" to offer advice and mental support. [i]Dream Surfer Theory:[/i] This theory is definitely the most interesting and controversial albeit has the lowest scientific credibility too. Basically, it implies that a man in real life has the power to teleport or manifest himself in other peoples dreams. There are sub-theories to this theory such as funding from big corporations (IE conspiracy). It is commonly thought that the man may look like the image in real life but it is also thought that he may look entirely different. [i]Dream Imitation Theory:[/i] Personally, what I believe is the most believable theory; is that essentially what started with one person has developed onto more people through the form of imitation. People become so inspired by other peoples visions of "this man" that they begin to concoct him unintentionally in their dreams. [i]Daytime Recognition Theory:[/i] This theory suggests that, because we do not exactly remember all the faces we dream, "this man" is the blank face that all human beings rely on as their fallback option if they do not remember the specified face within the dream. [b]This Man:[/b] I will attempt to describe this man in my opinion. He appears to be balding in the middle of his cranium. He also has quite bushy eyebrows. His eyes are large and friendly. His nose is kind of large but also to scale with the rest of his face. His lips curve upwards to form a neutral smile implying that he is friendly. And his hair covers over the top half of his ears, too. He, overall, appears to have a friendly image in which he can obtain the trust and friendship of the person he is invading. His face would suggest he would be around the mid thirties, maybe early forties. His face appears to be quite normal and unoriginal. [b]My Opinions:[/b] Personally, I believe this a real thing. I honestly do. Sure, there is no proof. But, I don't know, there just seems to be so many testaments and professional confirmations that it would be hard to dismiss such a myth so quickly. However, in having said that, I am a firm believer in the Dream Imitation Theory and that this man is a just part of people "spreading" him around. I don't believe he is the harbinger of death or anything like that as I'm not really a religious guy. Of course, the whole myth could be a massive hoax but it seems so well put together to not be real. Regardless, this was quite an interesting myth to research and also quite a spooky one for a change. I definitely do NOT want to run into this guy in my dreams. Hopefully, I won't. [b]SHADOW'S VERDICT:[/b] = = = TRUE = = = [b]Gallery:[/b] [url=http://www.thisman.org/history.htm]Website[/url] [url=http://www.thisman.org/thisman_small.jpg]Portrait[/url] [url=http://www.thisman.org/portraits.htm]Portrait(S)[/url] [b]Finale:[/b] Thanks for reading, guys. I hope you enjoyed this subject and learned a bit about "this man". I also hope you were significantly creeped out by it all. Stick around for more myths. <3 Shadow [Edited on 12.01.2011 5:08 AM PST]