During the entire existence of mankind has accumulated so many different superstition that if an attempt was made to systematize all the superstitions, such work is never destined to be realized the immensity of the problem in mind.
Every day there are new superstition.One of the new superstition says that it is impossible to photograph people who are asleep.How did this new superstition, why not take pictures of the sleeping - thoroughly unknown, but each of today's superstition has any historical basis, it is lost somewhere in the history of Homo sapiens.
Maybe it's superstition has a new secret any sense, or is it just a new interpretation of an old superstition that just can not wake a sleeping man?The fact that people have long been interested in sleep problems.Our ancestors, trying to explain a little bit strange condition in which a person gets at times, believed that during sleep the soul of man leaves his body and travels, and if by chance and quickly wake up, the soul may not get back, and then the person is no longerI never wake up.
Thus ancestors believed in the fact that a sleeping person, especially a child during sleep vulnerable and defenseless.Maybe that is based on this superstition that you can not take pictures of sleeping people?It seems that the camera flash or shutter sound can scare Guardian Angel, so nobody else will be able to preserve the dream of this man?
It is more likely another version: the sleeping person can simply scared to death sudden flash that will most likely lead to the development of stuttering and fear of the dark.
There is another version of the explanation as to why you can not take pictures of sleeping.This is due to some "Book of the Dead," who came to Russia from Europe in the late XIX century.In this case we are talking about the whole ceremony.
deceased person to dress well, put a table and photographed him in a close circle of relatives for dinner, or "reading" the morning paper and other mundane chores.Thus was created the illusion that people are still among the living, just "blink" while the shutter.
Especially so often photographed dead children, which, incidentally, quite clearly points to a sufficiently high infant mortality at the time.The child, who had died, dressed and photographed among his favorite toys and flowers.Such images serve as a consolation for the parents and a reminder of the child at the same time.Later, photos of "Book of the Dead" became collectibles.
sleeping man is somewhat reminiscent of the deceased, so this hypothesis may even act in favor of this new superstition that to photograph people who are asleep, you can not.
Another theory to explain why it is impossible to photograph sleepers.It is a widespread belief in the evil eye or damage, which sends the request enemies or envious sorcerers and magicians.Many believe that the photograph is displayed not only the man himself, but his aura.And as in a dream a person is said to ancestral beliefs, is vulnerable, it will be much easier to cause some harm by the pictures.
It is possible that at least one of these hypotheses to explain why you can not take pictures of sleeping, is true.Perhaps the root cause of the belief that you can not take pictures of sleeping people, was some fear of the camera?It does the same and now tribes, who believed that photography takes part of the soul.
Believe it or not in consideration of the new superstition - an individual matter, and anyone can solve it for himself as he tells the heart.Some of these superstitions reach sometimes up to the point of absurdity, ruthlessly removing even those pictures in which people turned blindly just because blinked when the shutter release, while others do not hesitate to spread the Web photos of their sleeping children - and nothing, "a whole generationrose ยป...
Well, all photographed sleeping without his permission is simply unethical.
