# Ever dream this man? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 29, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717 "2010-04-29T05:00:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/1 "2010-04-29T05:00:24Z")
This site claims that numerous people around the world are dreaming of this Bert-looking chap: [http://www.thisman.org/](http://www.thisman.org/) How big of a hoax is this? Where does it come from? Is it even remotely true? ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/2 "2010-04-29T05:03:14Z")
Rhey might might dream of that, but how is that uncommon? There are billions of people. And thats a pretty damn generic face. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/3 "2010-04-29T05:04:24Z")
He looks a little like Joel Grey as the MC in Cabaret. I don’t think he’s ever popped up in my dreams, though. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/4 "2010-04-29T05:06:52Z")
Oh, and for the record I’ve never dreamed him, that I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/5 "2010-04-29T05:19:34Z")
Is his name Richard Faraday? Ronald Fort? Ray Fontanue? Ever dream of an old black lady in a rocking chair in the same night? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/6 "2010-04-29T06:13:36Z")
From what I understand about dreaming, anyone who has viewed that picture is now a little more likely to dream about him, simply because they have seen the picture and have thought about this story. It’s the power of suggestion, and a self-fulfilling prophecy, and positive reinforcement, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/7 "2010-04-29T06:14:17Z")
**Koxinga** , somehow I always manged the walking man as…you know, sex on legs. He’d at least have the decency to pluck if he had the Frida Kahlo thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/8 "2010-04-29T06:18:44Z")
[Looks like Carl Sagan](http://www.teamrenzan.com/archives/writer/nagai/carl-sagan.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![\_cc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19b73/32.png) [@\_cc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_cc)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/9 "2010-04-29T08:29:27Z")
I’m once again aware that for some strange reason, I almost never dream faces. My dreams are rarely very visual to start with… they all seem to evolve emotions, actions, and situations, but rarely synced with any of the approprate visuals. I wonder why that is? The few times I ever had distinct images appear in dreams have always been momentous occasions for me… “Wow, I dreamt I saw a bedpost! It was so real, I could actually see some of the grain in the wood!” Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/10 "2010-04-29T09:23:46Z")
[It’s a hoax.](http://seo-kolkata.blogspot.com/2009/10/thismanorg-mystery-exposed.html) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/11 "2010-04-29T09:35:10Z")
It may be a hoax [and probably is] but I can say that I rarely dream about random strangers. Almost all of my dreams [that I remember] tend to be peopled by people I know or have met several times - which is why I hold with the theory that dreams are the way the brain sorts through my experiences. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/12 "2010-04-29T10:40:40Z")
Pointless Comment: Dude needs to get his eyebrows waxed. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/13 "2010-04-29T14:03:33Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > [It’s a hoax.](http://seo-kolkata.blogspot.com/2009/10/thismanorg-mystery-exposed.html) A few months ago they were talking about him on the radio and, after looking at it online, lots of people were calling in insisting they had dreamt of him for years. Certainly it’s still a hoax, and I guess it’s not remarkable that with a big audience there were plenty of people who either claimed to have dreamt of him or really believed they had. I was really hoping for it to be more of a trick. Something more abstract where you could easily fool yourself into interpreting the image as something you’d dreamt of. But nope, when I finally saw it I’d never dreamt of anybody like that. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/14 "2010-04-29T14:41:49Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > From what I understand about dreaming, anyone who has viewed that picture is now a little more likely to dream about him, simply because they have seen the picture and have thought about this story. It’s the power of suggestion, and a self-fulfilling prophecy, and positive reinforcement, and all that. My first thought was a half joking “well, \*now \*I’m going to” , and I think you’re absolutely correct. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/15 "2010-04-29T16:04:50Z")
He looks a little like [Jay Robinson](http://www.70slivekidvid.com/shrink/jayrtit1.jpg), famous for playing various Roman emperors and Dr. Shrinker. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/16 "2010-04-29T16:13:02Z")
No, but I’m pretty sure I’ve worked with him before. . . ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/17 "2010-04-29T16:18:55Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > It may be a hoax Why are you hedging? I mean really, someone makes an absurd claim on the internet. The starting point is that it’s bullshit. But I did hear from my friend’s cousin, who is the daughter of an ER nurse in Texas, that Laura Bush was born with a tail. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/18 "2010-04-29T16:23:05Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > [It’s a hoax.](http://seo-kolkata.blogspot.com/2009/10/thismanorg-mystery-exposed.html) Not just a hoax, but also an attempt at viral marketing of something. From the link: > [@](#): > > A quick look at the Who Is Records for the domain show that this domain is registered by some Andrea Natella from a Guerilla marketing agency in Italy. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/19 "2010-04-29T17:37:08Z")
> [@](#): > > A quick look at the Who Is Records for the domain show that this domain is registered by some Andrea Natella from a Guerilla marketing agency in Italy How hard can it be to market gorillas? How cool would that be? “Hey, want to meet my monkey”? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-dream-this-man/537717/20 "2010-04-29T18:30:00Z")
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