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entre chien et loupby *cbilladeau

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Illustrations / Conceptual

Illustration assignment; on sleep paralysis, something that I suffer from rather frequently. It's a difficult sensation to understand if you've never experienced it before; I once described it to someone as the feeling of a thousand hands pressing down on you, all at once.

"Entre chien et loup" literally translates to "between dog and wolf", referring to the time between day and night--between consciousness and unconsciousness, between reality and hallucination.

Also, there is an alternative version posted on my blog.

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~FangWangLlin Mar 7, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

God.············

Too great.

~Sevey Feb 19, 2013

I know this is an older work, and therefore you may not be open to critique or comment or not. However, it is still a very startling work to me. The realistic figure begin pushed down by shadowy and cubist hands stealing thier voice and their movement. I have had some very odd sleep experiences in my life. It has happened less than hanful of times but they scared me. I have had the sensation of waking but not waking completely. I feel my body I can see my surrounding, whether through visualization or being actually able to open my eyes I am unsure. However, I cannot mve, my body wnt respond to me. It often takes me a few minutes t finally fully wake up. It is disturbing to me, because in atlest one case I felt like I wasn't alone. I felt smething sitting on my chest and licking at my face. I have no animals in my house, and so there was no outside source for that particular sensation. I can only chalk it up to a hyper and intese imagination. It creeped me, but thankfully it has again only happened less than a handful of times, and I only had the sensation of being with another presence once. Still, it is frightening and I find this captures that feeling well.

~Gresskar Dec 15, 2012 Professional Writer

I was searching illustrations of this experience and stumbled over this, which describes the feeling perfectly. I experience it very rarely, but it happened twice this week, last time was the most intense experience of sleep paralysis I have suffered so far. When it truly felt like a thousand hands were holding me down, it was frightening. Even thtough I know it's nothing dangerous, I feel sorry for those who suffer it often. Wonderful illustration, I must say

~innocentusagi Dec 28, 2011 Student General Artist

Wow this piece really captures it, I started to suffer from it fairly recently, It's only happened to me 3 times but those were all times I'd rather do without. Im sorry you have it aswell (and more often)

Before I knew what it was, it really felt like someone was sitting on me and pushing all my limbs into the bed and unable to move them and your just stuck there until it finishes

brrrrr

but awesome piece, you caught it really well and the sense of invasion, and I love the colours and textures!

said it's a little hard to like because it captures the feeling so well

~ZeroHourNineAM Oct 22, 2011

I had that the first time today and I'm afraid to go to bed now

But it makes me feel better that there are a lot more people who know this condition.

~DC-Tiki Feb 8, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Oh yes, I can relate to this image very much. Used to happen to me a lot in my early twenties, every night for a while there to the point where I had a real fear of falling asleep. I'm so relieved I've grown out of it but occasionally it still happens. Great visuals, great colour palette, captures the experience pretty well but at the same time it's hard to like because it reminds me of how terrifying this sensation could be sometimes.

~BusterJim Dec 17, 2010 Professional General Artist

really nice colours! very striking image

~charpal Nov 17, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

This... is really creepy.

!Rose-Ly Nov 16, 2010

I always associate sleep paralysis with the painting called The Nightmare.
It must be an awful sensation to be in, I hear that sleeping with the belly down helps XD

~electricBURUhair Nov 11, 2010

Great interpretation; I have often compared my frequent sleep paralysis to something like this...

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