Stream of consciousness allows Woolf to capture the character's uninterrupted flow of internal thoughts, there is no third-party objective lens to distort the reader's perception. Woolf can immediately convey the character's unexpressed thoughts and feelings to the reader without distortion. This helps draw the reader in as they have access to all thoughts, not a selective group of thoughts chosen to create a particular effect. Most of the action in To the Lighthouse takes place within the characters' thoughts and feelings, which are shown in the ongoing narrative, very little "real" action occurs. Stream of consciousness is linked to Sigmund Freud's then-revolutionary ideas on the concept and function of the human unconscious. Woolf would have found the concept of the unconscious intriguing as they were new and revolutionary ideas and would have sought to illuminate the unconscious within her characters. Woolf provides not only insight into the characters' thoughts and feelings, but provides a more intimate insight into them. Woolf not only expresses the flow of each character's thoughts, but also weaves them into a narrative that flows seamlessly from one character's thoughts to those of another without any noticeable interruption or interruption. There is a narrative voice separate from the unconscious flow from the character's point of view. This is it