ReminiscingLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
Classification: Dissociative

This painting by Ryan Louder is part of a body of work shaped by his neurological condition — Narcolepsy with REM Intrusion Hallucinations, clinically confirmed via MSLT at Guy's Hospital, London. The work contains dissociative imagery — boundary dissolution, figure-ground collapse, and spatial incoherence consistent with REM intrusion.

Neuroaesthetic markers identified: Chimpanzee rendered in cold blue-grey pallor against near-black void; hands clasped in a posture of contained despair or waiting; upward gaze into empty darkness; the figure reads as isolated consciousness stranded in a featureless field — structural dissociative marker; blueish desaturation of the figure against warm-black void creates a sense of unreality

These markers are not deliberate artistic techniques but direct visual recordings of what REM intrusion hallucinations look like. The imagery emerges from neurological experience, not metaphor. Ryan has painted over 2,000 works, with over 1,000 originals sold. Each painting in this collection has been subjected to neuroaesthetic forensic analysis to identify and catalogue the perceptual phenomena present.

Materials used:

Acrylic paint

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 50.8 x 76.2 x 2.54cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Animals and birds

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