Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Self-portrait
Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Self-portrait
Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Self-portrait
Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Self-portrait
Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg

Photography, postproduction : Audrey Piguet

Parasomnias are manifestations of dissociated sleep states, a mixture of wakefulness and deep sleep. The subject "lives his dreams" as if they were real and therefore tries to escape the danger he may perceive. This condition is commonly associated with auditory, kinesthetic or visual hallucinations. The subject, unable to articulate sounds and prevent others, most often experiences a feeling of anxiety and fright. Their strange and disconcerting character has been at the origin, over the ages and across various cultures, of many superstitions and mythological or fantastic themes.

These photographs represent my own vision of these sleep disorders that I have been experiencing for several years now. The first picture with the clock corresponds to the time of my last sleep paralysis in 2019. I have chosen certain “totem” animals that represent fear, death, and also rebirth. For the portraits, they represent the sensation of physical pain, such as feelings of opening or tearing in certain areas of the body. These images, like visions that are both dreamlike and nightmarish, also speak of our link with nature and its different forms of life, both plant and animal. We are part of a whole but that sometimes this relationship is painful.

Finally, in my eyes, the cycle of sleep is similar to the rhythm of life: every evening is a kind of little death and every morning is a new beginning and a birth.

A short movie is also available : https://youtu.be/NUQTun2FXYg