(When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that he is over eighty years old and living in a convalescent home, and that this is 1992 and not 1913 and that he must face reality and the fact that)
作者Philip K. Dick (0 评论)
在菲利普·迪克（Philip K. Dick）的《扫描仪》中，叙述探讨了现实与感知之间的复杂相互作用，尤其是通过老年患者的镜头。当他唤醒他的母亲时，这引起了人们对他失去的过去和当前现实的苛刻真理的凄美提醒。与时间和记忆的残酷对抗强调了与自己和亲人脱节的痛苦。