Tomorrow has come, the moon shines bright and yellow. Resting my weary head on my pillow, I sink into a breathless sleep. Drained from my feats of the day, my next challenge looms over me. A pressure bears upon my chest, heavy as the deep blue ocean and the towering giants residing there. I face the suffocating creature, but my limbs fail to move, my lungs fail to expand, and my voice is nowhere to be found. And so I lay paralyzed, in the cold, deep night.
Deep Sleep is a painting that reflects my experience with sleep paralysis, depicted as a painting in an ocean-like setting. I chose to paint myself facing a whale to represent the pressure I feel in my chest during sleep paralysis. A mass seems to prevent me from moving a single muscle and restrains my breath, as if I were being crushed by the weight of an ocean.
