Can I photograph a sleeping person? There is an opinion that this is not worth it. Where did this belief come from, does it have an objective basis under it, or, rather, refers to superstition?
Most of the signs are passed orally from generation to generation, not particularly explaining what their action is based on. But before you believe this or that "knowledge", decide whether to apply in your life, I want to figure out what's what.
The most common version of the justification for the ban on photographing sleeping people is that the picture contains information about the person who is captured on it. After all, a photo preserves not only the image of a person, but also displays his energy. And at the time of sleep, a person is absolutely defenseless mentally. And in the event that the photo is seen by a person who can jinx, envy, the person who is shown in the picture can get harm.
It is believed that sorcerers for magical rituals have enough images of a person to influence him. Magicians in the photo can, as esoteric believes, see the past, the present, and the future of man. And also to spoil, bewitch and curse.
The next version is due to the fact that a flash or a click of the shutter of the camera can just scare the sleeping person. A person can suddenly wake up and begin to stutter.
Abrupt awakening is also not desirable from the point of view of the hypothesis that at the moment of sleep the soul flies away from the body. And if the sleep is too fast, she may not have time to return, which will lead to death. Indeed, since ancient times the state of sleep has been called "small death."
The next version of the explanation is the most unusual. It may seem wild to us, since nothing like this has happened in our country. It is connected with the fact that in the nineteenth century the relatives of the deceased person held a somewhat frightening photo shoot in order to preserve his memory.
The deceased was dressed, laid in bed and photographed as if he were sleeping. They could also make production shots, on which the deceased person was sitting at a common table and as if eating with everyone else, drinking tea. Now it sounds wild! And at that time there weren’t so many cameras and in order to at least somehow preserve the memory of a loved one, relatives resorted to the services of a photographer. I must say that these services were expensive, the price of even one shot was not available to everyone, so only well-to-do people could afford it.
And, in the continuation of this version, a man with closed eyes, as well as a sleeping person, became associated with the deceased. And so that this did not happen, they preferred not to photograph sleeping people at all. It was believed that if a person looks like dead in the picture, he will not live long.
