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A shadowy figure. She doesn’t talk. Most of the time he is alone, and at other times he appears accompanied. Your face and skin color, hidden. The only clear aspect is that he is wearing a hat. And the rest… terror. Security door. Suffocation. Around the world, crowds are detailing the exact same nightmare. The Man in the Hat is a vision that frequently manifests moments before falling into sleep paralysis. Why always him? What is the common look? How do you manage to transcend languages and borders?
Sleep paralysis is very difficult to detail even for all who suffer from it. The expressions are deficient to argue the horror, the impotence, the despair. In the first month of last year, we shared a short called Paralys, which features a disturbing visual reference to sleep paralysis. To this is added the report The Nightmare of the Year 2015, which includes interviews and recreations with expert actors (free on Netflix). Quite a few people try to escape sleep paralysis. Some did it alone and others with technical assistance. But there are auxiliary elements behind this. Recurring points, recurring data. One particularly stands out from the rest: The Hat Man.
It had to do with a man wearing a black hat. Hence the name of the character who frightened the women who live in the area.
It was a sparsely populated space at that time and the darkness was frightening, says María Tejeda, 63.
No woman wanted to walk alone near the place, for fear of the «man in the black hat», whose life has never been evaluated.
What hat do you have to wear if you are short?
If you are short: a hat with a medium crown and a small brim helps you look much taller. Never choose one that is quite large, whose wings are much wider than your shoulders, because you can look like a mushroom. If you are prominent: you can use hats with a wide brim and drop, with a much shorter crown.
What do the hats emit?