Getting outside yourself

“Every moment in our life presents the two aspects, it is actual and virtual perception on the one side and recollection on the other…Whoever becomes conscious of the continual duplicating of his present into perception and recollection will compare himself to an actor playing his part automatically, listening to himself and beholding himself playing.”

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory as quoted by Gilles Deleuze in Cinema 2 P.79