Can a sleeping person be photographed? There is an opinion that this should not be done. Where did this belief originate from, does it have an objective basis or is it more of a superstition?
Most of the signs are passed down orally from generation to generation, without particularly explaining what their action is based on. But before you believe this or that "knowledge", decide whether to apply it in your life, you want to figure out what's what.
The most common version of the rationale 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 reflects his energy. And at the moment of sleep, a person is absolutely defenseless mentally. And in the event that a photo is seen by a person who can jinx, envy, harm can be received by the one who is depicted in the photo.
It is believed that the image of a person is enough for sorcerers for magical rituals to influence him. Photo magicians can, according to esotericism, see the past, the present, and the future of a person. And also spoil, bewitch and curse.
The next version is related to the fact that the flash or the click of the camera shutter can simply scare the sleeping person. A person can wake up abruptly and start stuttering.
An 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 sleep goes out too quickly, she may not have time to return, which will lead to death. After all, the state of sleep has long been called "small death".
The next 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 a deceased person, in order to preserve the memory of him, conducted a somewhat frightening photo session.
The deceased was dressed, put to bed and photographed as if he were asleep. They could also make staged shots in which the deceased person was sitting at a common table and, as it were, eating and drinking tea with everyone else. It sounds crazy now! And at that time there were not so many cameras, and in order to somehow preserve in 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 picture was not available to everyone, so only well-to-do people could afford it.
And, in continuation of this version, a person with closed eyes, as well as a sleeping person, became associated with the deceased. And to prevent this from happening, they preferred not to photograph sleeping people at all. It was believed that if a person looks like a dead person in the picture, he will not live long.
