In December 2024 in New York, the CEO of a well-known health insurance company is shot by a man that has been repeatedly screwed over by the health insurance industry. A few days later, that man appears in the dream of an internet user, who decides to tweet about it. He swears he has never met the man in his life.
That tweet lies forgotten on the timeline for a few days until one day another internet user has a similar dream, and she decides to search multiple social media sites for other people posting about it. She also claims she has never met that man in her waking life.
That user decides to aggregate all the dreams about this man and post them to all her followers who might be curious. Within a few hours, people all over the world chime in with dreams and analyses of the situation. They all refer to him as LUIGI MANGIONE.
From December 2024 until today, at least 2.000 8.000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, on many social media sites around the internet: Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc.
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-full array of situations in the dreams of such diverse human subjects.
DREAMS
These are some of the dreams we collected at the beginning of the research"I had such a weird dream where Luigi (shooter) was imprisoned in a fully stocked grocery store in a post apocalyptic world and I just kinda found him and we debated politics while I grabbed a lot of chocolate bars and ate them on a very dangerous platform made of string"
"just remembered i had a dream last night that luigi got out on bail and we were hosting him at our house until the trial lol he was just chilling with us and we were feeding and housing him like he was an estranged cousin"
"I had the most wonderful and wholesome dream that I spent 3 days with Luigi and we went swimming with dolphins inside the Harvard library, painted t-shirts and ate turkish ice cream. He got to meet my friends and they all loved him."
"Had a super long dream that I was flying somewhere and Luigi Mangione was my seat partner. We ended up flying for days on end with various stops, including one to my parents house where my mum was trying to feed him some rather cremated looking burgers she had made."
"I don't think about Luigi Mangione at all when I'm disengaged from media but somehow he made it into a perfectly normal dream I had last night. We had him over for Christmas lunch. He was really polite and tried to help out as much as possible. That's all I can remember."
"I had a dream I was hanging out with Luigi. Super chill dude. We shared a bottle of sparkling lemonade."
"had a dream i met luigi and he made me some amazing pasta so i think my subconscious needs to work through some stereotypes"
"i had a dream i was having pizza with luigi in central park and that was his alibi"
"I swear I can't make this up. I had a dream I dapped up that Luigi kid and told him to keep his head up 😭😭 remember it clear as day. WHY. I barely care or pay attention to this whole shit going down. Crazy ass dreams smh"
"Had a dream I met luigi mangione and I had to give him a pep talk bc he was feeling insecure about his looks Imfao"
"I’ve been having dreams about Chuck Mangione. They are, unfortunately, sexual in nature."
source: @leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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THEORIES
Several theories have been developed to explain the mysteriously recurring presence of this man in the dreams of different people who are not related in any way. The following theories are the ones that elicit the greatest interest among the dreamers themselves.
ARCHETYPE THEORY
According to Jung’s psychoanalytic theory, this man is an archetypal image belonging to the collective unconscious that can surface in times of hardship (emotional development, dramatic changes in our lives, stressful circumstances etc.) in particularly sensitive subjects.
RELIGIOUS THEORY
According to this theory this man is the image of the Creator, that is to say one of the forms in which God manifests himself today. This is the reason why his indications and the words he utters during the dreams should be decidedly followed by the dreamers.
DREAM SURFER THEORY
It is the most interesting theory and the one that has the greatest implications, but it has also the lowest scientific credibility. According to this theory this man is a real person, who can enter people’s dreams by means of specific psychological skills. Some believe that in real life this man looks like the man in the dreams. Others think that the man in the dreams looks completely different from his real life counterpart. Some people seem to believe that behind this man there is a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.
DREAM IMITATION THEORY
This is a scientific psycho-sociological theory which claims that this phenomenon has arisen casually and has progressively developed by imitation. Basically when people are exposed to this phenomenon they become so deeply impressed that they start seeing this man in their dreams.
DAYTIME RECOGNITION THEORY
This theory states that the apparitions of this man are purely casual. Normally we do not remember precisely the faces we see in our dreams. The image of this man would thus be an instrument which, in the subject’s waking life, facilitates recognition of an undefined oneirical image.
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