personalities and dreams

(S. is for Surrealism)

I was reading a book (Surreal things - S. and design) while I was making research and this picture captured my attention immediately. It's a collage of the most important artists of the movement like Mirò, De Chirico, Magritte, Breton, Dalì, Ernst and so on. 

The thing which impressed me the most is their expression, although the size of all the pictures is almost the same and they are all in the foreground. 

People have obviously different personalities and attitudes which make us different and unique. All of the people in the picture have their own life, characteristics, thoughts and needs. Their expression reflects a lot about how they might be personally and deeply, but everything is still hidden by social prejudices and esthetic concerns. Like everything around us, actually. There is nothing in reality which is split from morality and schemes, which are generally thought to be right and fair.  

Luckily we are all still  human beings, able to dream. This ability depends on, at least, one hundred different causes such as personal background (including CHILDHOOD), imagination, experiences in life, life and mood. Our dreams range from normal and ordinary to overly surreal and bizarre and they occur involuntarily to our mind at certain stages of sleep.  

However, our ability of dreaming is absolutely equal for everyone. We are all able to dream and inquire in a way our unconsciousness, leaving our mind free to investigate the most deep levels of our brain within a lack of control and rationality. Our brain is a fascinating machine which allow us to be very aware of what we do, think and want, but it is also responsible for what is generally called the unconscious.  

Somehow, while we are totally defenceless, we are all on the same level. There is no way to lead your dreams, to draw the pattern and the place in which they take place, we are not allowed to change something as regards as our right, secure and well know reality. During this lack of control every characters is actually you, even if it doesn't make any sense, as far as we are sleeping.
The dream level is, in a way, a level where our unconsciousness is the shared key. The spatial and time conventions are totally overturned, demonstrating how our brain is made of irrationality and unconventional patterns as well. Everything is TRANSGRESSIVE, NONFUNCTIONAL, ILLOGICAL and UNCANNY, during a dream is basically allowed and real.