Surreal Self Portrait

This was my first attempt at surrealism using Adobe Photoshop and hopefully it will not be my last. Our assignment was simply to create a surreal self portrait and this was the exact image that popped into my head. Surreal photography is what got me interested in the medium in the first place but I was never confident enough in my abilities to attempt it. I used many tools I have never used before to create this image (including the "patch" tool).