diff --git a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/interactive/Completion.scala b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/interactive/Completion.scala
index bc63b958f1f0..7a808aafb481 100644
--- a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/interactive/Completion.scala
+++ b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/interactive/Completion.scala
@@ -112,10 +112,13 @@ object Completion {
     val completer = new Completer(mode, prefix, pos)
 
     val completions = path match {
-        case Select(qual, _) :: _                              => completer.selectionCompletions(qual)
-        case Import(expr, _) :: _                              => completer.directMemberCompletions(expr)
-        case (_: untpd.ImportSelector) :: Import(expr, _) :: _ => completer.directMemberCompletions(expr)
-        case _                                                 => completer.scopeCompletions
+        // Ignore synthetic select from `This` because in code it was `Ident`
+        // See example in dotty.tools.languageserver.CompletionTest.syntheticThis
+        case Select(qual @ This(_), _) :: _ if qual.span.isSynthetic => completer.scopeCompletions
+        case Select(qual, _) :: _                                    => completer.selectionCompletions(qual)
+        case Import(expr, _) :: _                                    => completer.directMemberCompletions(expr)
+        case (_: untpd.ImportSelector) :: Import(expr, _) :: _       => completer.directMemberCompletions(expr)
+        case _                                                       => completer.scopeCompletions
       }
 
     val describedCompletions = describeCompletions(completions)
diff --git a/language-server/test/dotty/tools/languageserver/CompletionTest.scala b/language-server/test/dotty/tools/languageserver/CompletionTest.scala
index 5aa12f425371..139c70e4c46e 100644
--- a/language-server/test/dotty/tools/languageserver/CompletionTest.scala
+++ b/language-server/test/dotty/tools/languageserver/CompletionTest.scala
@@ -857,4 +857,17 @@ class CompletionTest {
         |}""".withSource
       .completion(m1, Set(("show",Method, "(using x$2: x$1.reflect.Printer[x$1.reflect.Tree]): String")))
   }
+
+  @Test def syntheticThis: Unit = {
+    code"""|class Y() {
+           |  def bar: Unit = 
+           |    val argument: Int = ???
+           |    arg${m1}
+           |
+           |  def arg: String = ???
+           |}
+           |""".withSource
+      .completion(m1, Set(("arg", Method, "=> String"),
+                          ("argument", Field, "Int")))
+  }
 }