This superstition is common in the society of photographers, and among ordinary people. Especially reverent to this question include many young mothers, forbidding to photograph their children in a dream. Where did this superstition come from and why not photograph the sleeping ones?
In the XIX century in Europe, there was a tradition to photograph dead people as if they were just sleeping. The deceased was dressed in smart clothes and put on a bed or "seated" on an armchair and photographed it. Often it was possible to meet photographs on which the deceased was depicted during the improvised family tea drinking "sitting" at a common table. What now causes at least perplexity, at that time was considered a habitual matter. Hence the origin of the superstition - initially with the eyes closed in the form of sleeping people in the photo depicted the dead .Therefore, in order not to associate the person sleeping with the deceased, you can not photograph the sleeping.
Apparently, from the mentioned custom follows and the next version of why you can not photograph sleeping. According to her,
photographed by a sleeping person will not live long .After all, being imprinted with closed eyes, in the image of the dead, he thereby, as it were, attracts a speedy death.
The most popular version is that the soul of a sleeping person leaves the body of .At this time, the person is absolutely defenseless, and imprinting it in the period of "small death"( as long since called the time of sleep), it can negatively affect its energy. Yes, and simply waking from a flash camera, a person can be frightened by surprise.
Well, if the photograph of a sleeping person falls into the hands of an unscrupulous person, evil and envious, then grief can not be avoided. After all, wizards and sorcerers have long used the image of a man for various magical rituals. With the advent of photographs, it became much easier - the photo captures not only the human image, but also reflects its bioenergetics.
On the photo of a person you can learn everything: the past, the present, and the future - and cause irreparable harm( to spoil the evil eye, to curse, to curse).That's why you can not take pictures of those who are asleep - is a photo of a sleeping person with weak bioenergetics, is particularly vulnerable in this respect. Therefore, if you already have photos of sleeping relatives and close people( especially children), remove them or take them in a safe place, without exposing them to public view.
It's up to each of us to believe in this superstition or not. Someone comes to this point to the point of absurdity, removing even those photographs on which the person blinked during the outbreak. Someone ignores any warnings and puts photos of a sleeping child on the Internet. Perhaps, it is important to observe the golden mean without rushing to extremes, and, photographing the sleeping ones, store the images in the family archive. Just in case. ..
