As Ever Dreamed This Man, the website under the domain ThisMan.org, claims, This Man was first drawn by a "well-known [psychiatrist]" from New York (the site does not identify which) in January 2006, while dealing with a female patient that claimed to keep seeing This Man in her dreams.[1] A few days later, one of the psychiatrist's male patients recognized the man from the drawing and said he also saw the man while sleeping.[1] Both patients claimed they never saw him in real life.[1] The psychiatrist then sent the picture to four other colleagues who were dealing with people having repeated dreams, and four of those colleagues' patients identified the man and described him as "This Man."[1]