1 Inner and Outer Reality in Film Storytelling: Wandering Between Vertexes of Human Reality Foundations Carlos Figueiredo 1 , Inês Coimbra 2 (1) Faculty of Architecture / CIAUD, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal cfig@fa.ulisboa.pt (2) Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, ines_farmhouse@hotmail.com Abstract We do have memories, concepts, identity, experiences, building a self- inner world that gives us the notion of the reality about ourselves and the world we live in. Each of us have a differentiated reading of what surrounds us, of our environment, a self- consciousness that is unique, an “intuitive” sense of what is true or not, reality or fiction, before our eyes. What are the foundation of our concepts and notions we use to allow our discernment capacity between reality and dream-illusion-hallucination? How are we aware and understand the features and concepts of different worlds and their meanings? Different Films convey all range of contrasting times, concepts and realities, about our world and alternate ones, that coexist in a same film fiction. In these, we are immersed in the plot and telling, the characters´ inner lives, their feelings and in the fictional world they live on. But the tools we use to decide if we – and the characters – are experiencing reality, “dream time”, “mind time” or a “out of this world” reality are the same. What are the foundation types where our concepts and notions are rooted? The ones that allows us to decide what is reality and what is not? This inner reality capacity of judgement also make alternative universes presented understandable and readable. We consider three major families of these foundations: Dream Time - Mind Time, Scientific and Metaphysical based concepts types. Keywords: inner self, dream and reality, film storytelling, alternate universes, reality foundations 1. Reality, Meaning and the Self The way we see start from ourselves The Human Being must give consistency and meaning to his surroundings so that he can understand it. We can only deal with what makes sense to us: “The way that we interpret the events that shape our lives, the environments we encounter and the individuals we interact with, is dependent to a large extent upon processes of fantasizing – of imagining a portrait of our world that lends coherence to what is essentially the chaos of existence.” (Walters 2011a) Man and the Universe in which he lives are only reconcilable and relational if Man establishes in himself a relation of meaning with what surrounds him: “The schism between the self and the world is absolute and irreparable.” (Kravanja, 2011:120) The dream is a fiction lived by Man as a reality, a construction that is based on his self, on his realities and experiences, on his universe: “Awakening from the dream means to awaken from what we thought was reality but which is not.” (Botz-Bornstein, 2008:98) Even when we dream, the center of the dream fictions are always ourselves: "The one orientational anchor that is never lost in dreams is the self, the 'I' who dreams, the I who thus swims, flies, flees, makes love, fears, and fights. (…) It