Lately, I’ve been having problems with sleep and experiencing strange fears associated with it. I’m afraid to sleep because it feels like I lose reality and control over the situation, unsure of what might happen while I’m asleep. I have this phobia where if something is out of my control, I start to panic. So, very often when I try to sleep with these thoughts of fear about sleep, my body and mind begin to struggle. My body wants to sleep, but my brain and feelings of fear resist, and sometimes I experience split-second visions when I’m neither asleep nor awake. It’s like entering some ‘other world’ between sleep and reality, and I immediately jolt awake, gasping for breath with a pounding heart. When I’m there, I see something, but it’s always very strange, frightening, unreal, and incomprehensible, and I mostly don’t even remember what I saw. This is a collection about this world of mine where I fear to tread, about how I perceive it at this moment in my life, these pictures about what I feel about it.
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