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Somnia: Tarot and Sleep Paralysis (Inner Experience)

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Exploring Sleep Paralysis Experiences

Delving into personal encounters with sleep paralysis, individuals share vivid experiences with various entities like a shrouded woman and a man in a bowler hat. The chapter discusses the liminal space between consciousness and unconsciousness during sleep paralysis, comparing it to other transitional states and exploring the therapeutic aspect of translating these experiences into artwork. Artists use anonymity and symbolic elements like ropes and water to depict the spiritual and faceless beings encountered during sleep paralysis episodes, reflecting on recurring archetypes like the hatted man and the old hag.

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