What if inception was real

Here is what he said:. I want you to chase your reality. I want to make the case to you that our dreams, our virtual realities, these abstractions that we enjoy and surround ourselves with - they are subsets of reality.

The camera moves over the spinning top just before it appears to be wobbling, it was cut to black. Also read: Actor Vijay worried for stranded son in Canada amid lockdown: Report. Reality matters. The crux? He rushes to hug his kids, leaving the totem behind. Jung Institute of Colorado. There's some kind of fluidity in the unconscious. The bottom line: an army of subconscious spies and thieves like Cobb and his cronies won't come together anytime soon. But what fans of "Inception" can take away from the movie is that dreams are crucial to creativity.

It's little surprise that Nolan, who directed the thrilling tangle of "Memento" and the epic Batman film "The Dark Knight," says he came up with this summer's most think-outside-the-box movie while he was dreaming. And as we rebuild our brains at night, we create new ideas, we create creativity. Deirdre Leigh Barrett, professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School , offered the following tips -- known as " incubation " instructions -- for people who want to use their dreams to solve problems and increase their creativity:.

Psychologists have developed incubation rituals to encourage problem-solving dreams. Cobb spends the movie processing, unpacking, revisiting, and trying to figure out how to break free of his traumas. Cobb seeing his children's faces at home is not the result of release from legal pursuit, but rather the result of him allowing himself to see them after letting go of Mal.

It is very possible, in this new dream and I do believe the ending is based in a dream, not reality Cobb is going to have to process his absence from his children and work through the guilt of his actions rippling into their lives.

Dreams feel real. To varying degrees, they operate by the laws of nature which govern our world while also possessing something of a surreal quality.

Dreams are a time for us to process our world, our thoughts, our feelings, the day we just witnessed, and so one.

Dreams are a sacred space which we cannot hope to hold onto after we wake. We can spend precious time unpacking the meaning of dreams, pondering the messages they hold for us. Those messages and answers, whatever they seem to be, come from within us.

We process our own minds and our world. Inception is, simply put, Cobb's dream. Inception is now available to watch on Netflix. Get even more Christopher Nolan-related updates here. Want something spooky to watch over the holidays?

Image via Warner Bros. Share Share Tweet Email. Allie Gemmill Articles Published. Read Next in movies. Using a mixture of technology and drugs to create a dreamscape that more than one person can inhabit is one of the more outlandish aspects of Inception 's plot.

Currently, there is no way one person's dreams can be shared with someone else in real-time. One can only hazily recount their experience to someone upon waking and hoping they don't judge your subconscious exploits too harshly.

Having said that, Inception isn't entirely without real-world comparison. When on a job, Cobb and his cohorts can move freely through dreams, fully aware of their situation and the non-reality they're occupying. Proponents of lucid dreaming claim this to be perfectly possible. A lucid dream is essentially when the person recognizes they're dreaming, but is able to continue their adventure with this knowledge.

Although research into the matter is ongoing, scientific studies suggest lucid dreams are inherently different to the usual kind, and while there's no way to share the experience with others yet , more recent developments have inched eerily closer to Inception territory. In a report published in February available here , scientists claimed they were able to share a two-way conversation with a person in the midst of a lucid dream.

The sleeper would hear audio cues from the lab, and then responding with specific eye movements, even solving simple math sums. This echoes how Cobb's team use musical cues to signal incoming wake-up kicks in Inception. Interestingly, experiments of this ilk have disproved Inception 's idea of time dilation in lucid dreams.

Although it often seems like time passes faster in dreams, lucid dreamers have shown an ability to keep count in time with the real world. Edging even closer into Christopher Nolan 's fictional world, studies were carried out with on-the-market drugs said to induce lucid dreaming as a side effect.

Although the results aren't conclusive, there is some indication that a drug could be used to increase the chances of experiencing a lucid dream, while various other products that allege to induce a lucid dream are also available. Expect Somnacin to hit a pharmacy near you soon! Layered dreaming is another part of Inception 's lore with a close, albeit somewhat less exciting, real life cousin.