Dali regarded his works as ‘hand painted dream photographs’, and depicted the figures in his paintings with a precision that aspired to that of the camera. Of interest, therefore, to me in my final essay, is the reasoning behind this technique. Why would realistic and precise paintings serve better the purpose of illustrating the domain of the subconscious, than any other technique? The camera as well, which Dali sought to emulate, possessing the capacity for the “profane illumination” of the object, as Walter Benjamin coined the phrase, (qtd by Jonathan Crary, 155) is a subject of interest here. I will consider the possibility that in this photographic depiction of the subconscious state, the subconscious is exposed to profane illumination.