“Mara Experiences”
DongWoo Kang
20 Feb → 14 Mar 2009
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‘Mara Experiences’, or ‘Sleep Paralysis’, describes the moment when a dream becomes a nightmare, during which we cannot move our body and we experience night terrors. The nightmarish logic of the dream is that it creates the sense that it is reality. That is, during the dream, we perceive the dream as real. This is a surreal state, but also an imaginary one.

Sleep paralysis creates despair because we cannot control anything in the reality of the dream. Especially when the dream repeats itself several times, we cannot escape this night terror, and we feel lost between the dream and reality.