Cloud ' s Subconscious Cloud ' s Subconscious is a surreal location inside the mind of Cloud Strife in " Final Fantasy VII " . It is visited once by Tifa Lockhart following Cloud and her falling into the Lifestream after Ultimate Weapon ' s attack on Mideel . Cloud was mentally unstable following the experiments of the Jenova Project , and so has to descend into his own mind to find himself . Tifa manages to enter his mind thanks to the Lifestream ' s effects . Since it is Cloud ' s inner mind , various versions of himself exist as memories from the past . Masato Katou , an event planner for " Final Fantasy VII " , made the events for Cloud ' s subconsciousness . The movies were made by Kazuyuki Ikumori , a " Final Fantasy VII " movie designer who was originally a graphic designer for the maps . This was the first time he ' d tried his hand at movies . Story . As Tifa helps Cloud to unravel the mysteries inside himself , she visits several versions of Cloud during various stages of his life . North Cloud . This is Cloud ' s memory of the Nibelheim Incident , and shows Nibelheim exactly as it was just before Sephiroth destroyed the town . Cloud begins to play what occurred in his mind five years ago , but Tifa tells him he was not one of the two SOLDIER s who came into the town . Instead , it was a black - haired man carrying the Buster Sword . West Cloud . This is Cloud ' s memory of his promise to Tifa just before he left Nibelheim to join SOLDIER . Since Cloud does not even know if he is the real Cloud , or a Sephiroth Clone created by Professor Hojo as Sephiroth claims , he wonders if this memory is false , just like his memories of the Nibelheim Incident . Tifa concludes by viewing this memory the Cloud of " Final Fantasy VII " must be the real Cloud ; there was no way he could have made up the details so clearly by just listening to Tifa ' s stories . Cloud himself still has doubts . Tifa suggests Cloud mention a memory of her she had never talked about . Cloud reveals he wanted to join SOLDIER to make Tifa notice him ; they were not nearly as close as Tifa remembers . South Cloud . This is a memory of Cloud as a young boy looking through Tifa ' s window before being allowed inside to join the group . The memory is around the time Tifa ' s mother died and she was so distraught she tried to climb Mt . Nibel to find her , imagining her mother would be on the other side . Tifa ' s three friends followed , but deserted her . Cloud followed and was the only one present when Tifa injured herself in a fall . The townsfolk blamed Cloud for the accident , and Tifa ' s father forbade him to come near Tifa . While in this memory , Cloud breaks into two parts , a normal Cloud , and a black shadow of himself . Cloud and Tifa were not particularly close as children ; she played with three other kids whom Cloud was jealous of . He thought they were stupid and immature , though this was a cover for his own loneliness , and admits it was his fault he was not part of the group . When Cloud called Tifa to meet him at the well , she was surprised to be called out to such a well - known date spot , apparently unaware of Cloud ' s crush on her . Cloud was unsure whether or not she would even come , though was glad when she did . Tifa admits after Cloud left town she thought of him and looked for word of his deeds in the newspapers . The Truth . Cloud rejoins into a single form and moves back into his memory of Nibelheim . Tifa follows him past the town and into the Mako Reactor to his memories of confronting Sephiroth . Tifa is injured and the black - haired SOLDIER runs up to fight Sephiroth . Cloud remembers the SOLDIER ' s name is Zack . Sephiroth easily defeats Zack , but a character wearing the standard blue Shinra guard uniform appears , runs up and stabs Sephiroth from behind with the Buster Sword . When the person removes his mask , it is revealed to be Cloud . He was there during the Nibelheim Incident the entire time , only hiding under his helmet . Cloud did not wish to be seen because he failed to become a SOLDIER as he promised Tifa he would . After wounding Sephiroth , Cloud went down to move Tifa to a safer place . Sephiroth staggered by and Cloud fought him , only to be impaled by Sephiroth ' s Masamune . Grabbing the sword , Cloud threw Sephiroth into the Lifestream and defeated him . After Cloud remembers who he is and what really happened in Nibelheim , his mind is cured . All the versions of himself come together and Cloud is again a whole person . Cloud and Tifa leave the Lifestream and return to their party at Mideel , with Cloud again as its leader . Deleted Scenes . According to " Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega " , Cloud ' s rescue scene was originally planned to be even longer ; after washing up on the shore of Mideel with Tifa , Cloud would have been unconscious and Tifa would have had to revive him with CPR . During this stage Cloud would have a vision of being experimented by Professor Hojo in Nibelheim , and of his escape with Zack . The scene was moved to be viewed in the Shinra Mansion Basement in the game ' s final version . One of the story scenes in Cloud ' s Subconscious happens on a white background , and retells the events where young Cloud and Tifa have fallen off a bridge and the adult Tifa , Cloud and a black shadow Cloud watch the events unfold when the villagers , including Tifa ' s father , find the two kids . An earlier build of this scene exists in the first Japanese release of the game . If this earlier version is unearthed from the game data , the scene plays out and it appears Tifa has fallen atop of Cloud , so he may have cushioned her fall . There are two Clouds on the scene like in the final version , but they are both the normal fully colored model , rather than one of them being a black silhouette . The player ' s mobility is not disabled , and the player can move Tifa around in this scene . The text reads as gibberish . The text boxes are not transparent like in the final version , and the scene doesn ' t fade to black when Cloud begins reminiscing about the first time he heard of Sephiroth . As there exists no jump to the Cloud ' s Subconscious field , the player is stuck in the white field if they manage to trigger this scene . Musical themes . The music that plays in most scenes in Cloud ' s Subconscious is " Who Am I ? " . After Cloud has discovered his true persona the music changes to the " Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII " . In the scene when Tifa ' s mother died the theme " On the Other Side of the Mountain " is played .