Since the age of four, Hadwin has been creating artworks while asleep, “drawing everything from Marilyn Monroe to partially nude fairies while he is in a subconscious state”. I found it extremely interesting when Hadwin claimed to have no artistic abilities when awake. It is only when he is sleeping that his talent for drawing detailed figures and abstract forms reveals itself.
As a kid Hadwin at night would start scribbling on the walls of his bedroom. He wasn’t making masterpieces at that young age, but he would sleepwalk and pick up drawing tools. He went to the doctor, but they did not think anything of it and called his condition normal sleepwalking. What is amazing is as he grew, so did his artistic abilities. In his teens he started drawing celebrity portraits, with a grand amount of detail.
Hadwin has done tests several times. Going to a main clinic in Edinburgh three times. Even traveling to different facilities like New Zealand, where they thought it was parasomnia. The hardest thing to prove was his drawing, no one has ever questioned whether he was really drawing in my sleep. The questions were about whether he cannot really draw while he was awake.
I have never heard of such a talent before, I found Lee Hadwin’s case unique and beautiful. His artworks are intriguing, but I think the development of them is more interesting than anything.
I have linked a website below that goes into more detail about Lee Hadwin’s special talent. As well as how he feels about his experiences and how this came to be.