“There are two types of consciousness [optical and the instinctual] are intimately linked.For in the most cases the diverse aspects of reality captured by the film camera lie outside the 'normal' spectrum of sense impression.Many of the deformations and stereotypes , transformations, and catastrophes which can assail the optical world in films afflicts the actual world of psychosis, hallucinations, and dreams. Thanks to the camera, therefore, the individual perceptions of the psychotic and the dreamer can be appropriated by collective perception. The ancient truth expressed by Heraclitus, that those who are awake have a world in common, while each sleeper has a world of his own, has been invalidated by film - and less by depicting the dream itself than by creating figures of collective dream, such as the glove-encircling Mickey Mouse”