”Sleep paralysis has been an ongoing occurrence for me ever since the age of 15,” explains the 21-years old American photographer Nicolas Bruno in an interview with Yatzer. ”I have experienced bone chilling hallucinations and extreme terror during these dreams: faceless silhouetted figures, embraces from shadow-like hands, the warping of reality around me – all the while being completely paralyzed in the midst of being awake and sleeping.”
Nicolas Bruno is a photographer who composes surreal scenes based on his experiences with sleep paralysis, a rare phenomenon that renders an individual immobilized in a hallucinatory state between dreams and awakening.
The result is a series of images that vibrate with us , embodying the raw experiences of fear and the will to survive.
