Getting out of bed into the darkness, the man searches around his room with strange intentions. Soon, he finds what he is looking for. Grasping a pencil, he begins drawing on a used newspaper. He bends over his work for an hour as a beautiful image appears. But the artist seems to be hardly conscious.
Lee Hadwin, by day a nurse, at night is a sleepwalking artist who produces strange and fantastic works of art, which he has no memory of drawing when he wakes the next morning. Hadwin says he is completely confused about his nighttime talent, especially as in the daytime, he shows no interest or ability in art at all.
Hadwin, 33, from North Wales, is now being investigated by the Edinburgh Sleep Centre. “It is horrible;” he says. “I feel exhausted when I wake up. It is only in the following days that I'm
it. At first, I just feel terrible. Now I am able to look at what I've produced and appreciate
receiving therapy (治疗) in an attempt to discover what causes my subconscious self to draw. I want to get to the root of it.”
An incredible video of Hadwin at work in a sleepwalker's state has already become a hit after it was shown on the Internet. The video shows Hadwin drawing at great speed, but not answering his name being called out by witnesses. Major galleries have also been asking for examples of his work.
Hoping to develop the strange ability, Hadwin started leaving artist's materials out when he went to bed. Although he leaves colored paints and pencils out, he has never drawn in color. Hadwin said, “Each morning I wake up and see a newly?created piece of art lying beside my bed, I breathe a sigh of relief that my gift still belongs to me.”