The cinema is designed to induce a state that resembles sleep you are shut off in a dark space devoid of distraction from the outside world and made to experience sequential images that you have no control over but that convey a certain aspect of existence, this is a dream state
"the surrealist praised the way the cinematic image unfolded to approximate the workings of the imagination and the dream-state. the surrealists' untamed eye is the first and foremost an inner eye. of central importance to their views on the cinema is the relationship between viewing of a film and the act of dreaming. to them watching a film unfolding in a darkened cinema embodied the closest thing to a dream. jean goudal described the cinema as a 'conscious hallucination' - even more powerful than literature"
this idea of a "conscious hallucination"a hallucination that thinks and evolves out of itself and not only that that is aware of itself
dreams essentially boil down all our knowledge and being and fuse that with the most recent events of our life that are still floating about in our frontal lobe yet to work themselves into the recesses of our mind
"The cinema, then, constitutes a conscious hallucination, and utilises this fusion of dream and consciousness which surrealism would like to see realised in the literary domain. these moving images delude us, by leaving us with a confused awareness of our own personality and by allowing us to evoke, if necessary, the resources of our memory"
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