09-22-2010, 12:00 AM
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As I've been in a discussion about the movie, Inception, here, Inception and Architect Merging, I figured I'd start a thread on a few of the terms and concepts I remember from the movie. Please add your own thoughts as well.
One of the primary tools used in this movie is a chemical, provided by a chemist, to induce and perhaps control Dreaming. Is anyone familiar with this at all? Have you used chemicals to induce Dreaming? If so, what were the results?
"Time" is also addressed in this movie. From what I recall from the movie, the first level of Dreaming had something like a 5/60 minute ratio. Five minutes of sleeping time was 60 minutes in Dream time. The second level of Dreaming, or my interpretation of Dreaming within a Dream or awakening into another Dream, was ten times the ratio mentioned above. From there, I think time in Dreaming moved exponentially or something like that. Regardless of what's mentioned in the movie, in my humble opinion of course, is that there definitely seems to be a different time continuum from sleeping to Dreaming. What has been your experience with this? Have you used this time discrepancy in either waking or Dreaming?
Another term mentioned was a 'Totem.' (I think.) This was an object that was personal to the Dreamer, and taken with the dreamer into Dreaming. I'm unsure of the exact use of this item, but my interpretation of this was that this object was used to differentiate waking reality from Dream time. What is your interpretation of this? DiCaprio had a spinning top; the Architect woman had a chess piece (I think.) What do you make of this? Do you have something similar? If so, how have you used it?
There's so much more to this movie, yet I'll stop here with a couple basics mentioned above.
Feel free to share any idea's you have in regards to this movie.
SHM
As I've been in a discussion about the movie, Inception, here, Inception and Architect Merging, I figured I'd start a thread on a few of the terms and concepts I remember from the movie. Please add your own thoughts as well.
One of the primary tools used in this movie is a chemical, provided by a chemist, to induce and perhaps control Dreaming. Is anyone familiar with this at all? Have you used chemicals to induce Dreaming? If so, what were the results?
"Time" is also addressed in this movie. From what I recall from the movie, the first level of Dreaming had something like a 5/60 minute ratio. Five minutes of sleeping time was 60 minutes in Dream time. The second level of Dreaming, or my interpretation of Dreaming within a Dream or awakening into another Dream, was ten times the ratio mentioned above. From there, I think time in Dreaming moved exponentially or something like that. Regardless of what's mentioned in the movie, in my humble opinion of course, is that there definitely seems to be a different time continuum from sleeping to Dreaming. What has been your experience with this? Have you used this time discrepancy in either waking or Dreaming?
Another term mentioned was a 'Totem.' (I think.) This was an object that was personal to the Dreamer, and taken with the dreamer into Dreaming. I'm unsure of the exact use of this item, but my interpretation of this was that this object was used to differentiate waking reality from Dream time. What is your interpretation of this? DiCaprio had a spinning top; the Architect woman had a chess piece (I think.) What do you make of this? Do you have something similar? If so, how have you used it?
There's so much more to this movie, yet I'll stop here with a couple basics mentioned above.
Feel free to share any idea's you have in regards to this movie.
SHM