Surrealist Subprotocols: Sensory Displacement

Surrealism's most subversive subprotocol: Displacing the senses with the surreal. Where the mundane becomes the bizarre, and the familiar becomes the unknown.

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Key Principles

• Displace the senses with the illogical
• Subvert the rational with the absurd
• Multiply the banal with the bizarre

Notable Examples

• The melting clocks of Dali
• The distorted landscapes of Escher
• The dreamlike scenarios of Dalí

Subprotocol Variations

1. Variable Sensory Deprivation

2. Forced Reality