Plus one more thing i have noticed is that after his wife was dead the last time he sees his children and they run away ... and this 'never seen after man' hands him the ticket .. he still had his ring on! So by then Mal was already dead, so why did he have his ring on and it was supposedly reality...

Cobb states that, being hooked up to the machine, is the only way he can dream anymore. I believe he's actually talking to Ariadne when he makes this statement (when she goes into his 'experiments').

People keep saying that the movie obviously wasn't a dream because of the times the top fell, but why wouldn't it fall in a dream? Everyone knows that after spinning a top, it will eventually fall. It's common knowledge. A totem is supposed to contain a characteristic that is unique. So of course s...

It was a hotel, she probably bought it for the night. And I looked at the comparisons between rooms, I don't think hers was trashed. See this isn't what I'm thinking. She had that much time to trash the place and go to the next building? The more realistic notion here is that it's a dream, with the...

Hehe. I know you weren't trying to give me a hard time. Inception is just a very complicated movie, and there's a lot of paradoxes and inconsistencies. It's entertaining to see people trying to explain the "laws of Inception" as if it was the three laws of physics. :D Nolan is an absolute genius fo...

Ok. I'm on track with what you're saying now. But because we only SEE the top in action and cannot feel (part of what Arthur says) who are we to say there is no difference of WEIGHT between worlds? Furthermore, going on your stance, how the heck would Ariadne's totem work? There's nothing special a...

Not according to the notes I took while watching the movie. If you're in someone else's dream/reality, your totem DOES NOT behave normally--that's the point of it all. You know it doesn't behave normally because only you know the difference--the uniqueness. Arthur says to Ariadne: "Your totem allow...

You've set up a contradiction in your statement. The "special manner" known only to you, in the "real world", is the normal behavior. That's the trick. The trick you know is the normal behavior. Hence, if in someone else's dream, the trick (normal behavior), doesn't occur, you know you're in someon...

Not according to the notes I took while watching the movie. If you're in someone else's dream/reality, your totem DOES NOT behave normally. You know it doesn't behave normally because only you know the difference--the uniqueness. Arthur says to Ariadne: "Your totem allows you to know if you're in s...

your totem would behave "normally" and not in the special manner only you know You've set up a contradiction in your statement. The "special manner" known only to you, in the "real world", is the normal behavior. That's the trick. The trick you know is the normal behavior. Hence, if in someone else...