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Arguably the most spectacular cinematic dream sequence of all time, Salvador Dali's contribution to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) featured a Surrealist stage set par excellence. Replete with a hallucinogenic landscape, it included morphing objects, a faceless man, and--above all--lots and lots of enormous, blinking, staring eyes.

Dali seems to contend that in dreams, despite--or perhaps because of--our eyes being closed, ocularity takes on a heightened, anxious role: We are able to see things normally deemed invisible or impossible. Most disturbingly, we often see ourselves, ...

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