Dream and Reality in the Film Storytelling and their Boundaries: Viewer Inner Self Centered Cognitive and Ergonomic Consciousness Carlos Figueiredo 1 , Inês Coimbra 1 1 Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade de Lisboa / CIAUD Research Center Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Univeritário 1349-063 Lisboa, Portugal Cfigpt@gmail.com, Ines_Farmhouse@hotmail.com Abstract. What is the foundation or notion that participates in our discernment capacity between reality and dream-illusion-hallucination? How to handle percepts and events refused to accept or understand from us as belonging to reality? How are we aware and understands the features and concepts of different worlds and their meanings? In a Film, the viewer is immersed in the plot, characters´ inner lives and their feelings and in the fictional world they live on. The viewer must decide about what is shown to him: are characters experiencing reality, “dream time”, “mind time” or it is an “character´s out of world reality” experience? Different Films do convey all range of different times, concepts and realities - and their boundaries - that coexist in a same film fiction, plot and telling. Some of these paradigmatic films, will be picked and analyzed, being a tool and case study for this reflection. Keywords: Inner Self · Ergonomic Cognition · Dream and Reality · Film Sto- rytelling · Environment Boundaries 1 Fantasy and Lived Parallel Realities Fantasy Cinema bases its fictions and worlds on what we accept as possible, but it openly reverses its fundamental rules: “Fantasy recombines and inverts the real, but it does not escape it: it exists in a parasitical or symbiotic relation to it.” (Jackson 1981) [1] Related to our notion of the real and possible, a cinematic fantasy fiction is as- sumed to be a transgression of several of these principles: “Bound to the reality, the writer sub-creates an anti-reality, which assumes other rules and laws of nature yet still related to the reality”. (Üstun 2012, 17) [2] Fantasy in Cinema, by inverting the fundamental and accepted experiential, for- mal, social, cultural, political, metaphysical and scientific rules of our world, creates alternative worlds narrating the impossible or the nonexistent, implying the collapse of the rational unity of the world that we know: the one of our daily reality. Fantasy is