Re: Dream A Little Bigger: A Guide To Understanding Inceptio
Posted: July 20th, 2010, 2:38 pm
The part about Limbo is somewhat wrong as well. Limbo is not a state of mind but an actual location.
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If the dreamer knows how his special totem behaves, and he can dream it to behave in any way he wants, then of course he can use it to also tell him if he's in a dream or not, as a secondary function. I don't understand why people keep bringing this up as an inconsistency in the film.A totem doesn't tell the dreamer if he's in a dream or in reality ... only if he's in someone else's dream or not. Because the dreamer knows how his special totem behaves, he can dream it to behave in any way he/she wishes in his/her dream. Therefore, it can not be used to differentiate reality from his own dream.
You're assuming your subconscious is always fully under the dreamer's control. I believe if the dreamer wanted to believe he was in the real world, he would just dream his totem behaves as it should in the real world. There is no safeguard against delusion.paladinryan wrote:If the dreamer knows how his special totem behaves, and he can dream it to behave in any way he wants, then of course he can use it to also tell him if he's in a dream or not, as a secondary function. I don't understand why people keep bringing this up as an inconsistency in the film.A totem doesn't tell the dreamer if he's in a dream or in reality ... only if he's in someone else's dream or not. Because the dreamer knows how his special totem behaves, he can dream it to behave in any way he/she wishes in his/her dream. Therefore, it can not be used to differentiate reality from his own dream.
For example, Leo was able to use Mal's totem to remind her she was in a dream, even though it was a dream they shared.
I'm pretty sure he does. You can see the glint as he's walking down the hallway holding the flowers.Baz744 wrote:Was Cobb wearing his wedding ring when Mal jumped off the ledge?
Then under the theory that Cobb doesn't wear the wedding ring in the real world, but does wear it in dreams, that would indicate that Mal jumping off the ledge was a dream...Arthur wrote:I'm pretty sure he does. You can see the glint as he's walking down the hallway holding the flowers.Baz744 wrote:Was Cobb wearing his wedding ring when Mal jumped off the ledge?