Yet in any case subjectively we experience it as an actual division.

Our mind is split and can be here and there apparently in one mental act.

This inner division, this awareness of contrasting situations, this interchange of diverging experiences in the soul, can never be embodied except in the photoplay.
An interesting side light falls on this relation between the mind and the pictured scenes, if we turn to a mental process which is quite nearly related to those which we have considered, namely, suggestion.

It is similar in that a suggested idea which awakes in our consciousness is built up from the same material as the memory ideas or the imaginative ideas.

The play of associations controls the suggestions, as it does the reminiscences and fancies.