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OPEN CALL
01 – 30, MAY 2026

Ranita Roy

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

India

Something Watching You

Somewhere between dream and reality, what I experienced. Those nights are more than a nightmare!! Grew up in a middle-class family in Andul, West Bengal, India. Loneliness around me is a part of my life since my childhood. I remember the night during my college days, I fall asleep so hard. I think the incident happened to me between 2 to 3 am. I need help, wanted to scream, but I could not. I saw that but was unable to move. It was so terrible night I had. Even I could not sleep at night for couple of weeks after that incident. It was so horrifyin feelings that I cannot express in a word. In the year 2017, again it happened to me, but in a different manner. I was not scared this time but felt assaulting by something, which I could not see! It was horrible in its own way. Every time I feel, am I going to die? Or it's just a dream!! Something pressing on my chest that I couldn't breathe and about to die maybe!! Hallucinating so much, like some evil was continuously looking at me. Sometimes divine and lift me off from the bed. It was supernatural, which I could feel but was unable to see. After that hilarious period when I could be able to move, I was still scared as I felt if I turn on the light, I could be able to see some evil, which may kill me! Sometimes, after the incident, I slept again, but most of the time I ran away to my mother’s bedroom. Then again, I spent sleepless night for couple of weeks. I started to research a lot from the year 2016 and came to know that it is called Sleep paralysis, and many people experienced a similar kind of incident. Thinking to express that feeling through my photographs, I started capturing pictures from real world what is similar to my experience on sleep paralysis. I believe I will be able to make understand people who don't know about this and who knows but have no experience of that. I Hope, my project would be an illuminative feat for society...

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