Design de um produto pictórico multidimensional de histórias fictícias: o mundo imaginário da paralisia do sono

Abstract

For the graduation work, it was important to create something with a personal air to it, and with the frequent sleep paralysis episodes, the appalling hallucination and suffering caused by the phenomenon has been consciously turned into a motive and stimulus for artistic creation and serving as the inspiration for the design project, being used again in the creation of something extraordinary. The intervention’s creative experience, through design, proves the appropriation and transformation of the elements, ingredients and experiences of horror in stories and illustrations can, from a psychological point of view, contribute a lot to people who suffer from the issue, in addition to inspire and provoke a unique immersive experience for those who are into the horror genre. The first step in manipulating and applying sleep paralysis experiences in an artistic way is understanding what such phenomenon actually is, who it affects, its causes and how to avoid it, then focus on how the proposal applies within this issue and how it can contribute in a general or specific way. The paralysis and its effects must be properly explained and understood, and one way to achieve that is taking advantage of the terror elements that appear in the hallucination and transform them into images and products that expand the imagery repertoire for the creation of artistic and literary works in the horror and suspense genres, not only for those who suffer from sleep paralysis, but for the public that seeks such a genre. The project under development focuses on the creation of a book with illustrations and stories of "real" creatures or beings that inhabit the imaginary world of sleep paralysis hallucination, which serves as an example that proves the validity of the design that tackles the issue with the application of extracted imagery elements and recreated from the hallucination itself. The book also seeks to be an immersive experience, drawing inspiration from works such as “Call of Cthulhu”, in which the reader might even confuse fiction with reality, typical of a subgenre of horror known as “eldritch horror”.