Thread: Inception

So, I think all of us lucid dreamers have probably seen Inception. I think a couple of things about it are extremely good, and other things about it are very much missing, specifically "in dreams" part of it.

A few things that I think need to be said about this little project of mine. I am keeping the rules and the plot of the movie, just changing a lot of the filler stuff. If you have any ideas that you think would be fun to see in it, let me know. I am not extremely great at writing, but I will get better at that as well, feel free to critique that as well. I will be throwing in all sorts of normal dreams, as well as a long section on dream control. A few rules need to be bent in the dream world, but I like the overall idea.

Some rules that will need to be followed in order for this whole thing to make any sense.
1) Architect
This is the person that creates the dream world. Taking them to pre-built dream places that they have created.
2) Projections
I think this is something that a lot of people misunderstood in the movie, the projections do not attack the dreamer. They attack the intruder. This is why Cobb was able to go into a completely preset environment every night, from memory, without all the projections attacking him. The architect is the one that they are after, since they know that it isn't the right dream.
3) Dying
Dying in other people's dreams makes you wake up. Tada, doesn't have to hurt your schema at all, now does it?
4) Dream within a dream/time dilation
Same rules as apply, because each layer they go into a different person's mind with the dream, so it makes sense that the architect and all of that would change too. Time dilation I think makes sense as a standard for the movie and I will be using the same table of time dilation per level.
5) Limbo
I am pretty much doing as much research on this as possible, to make sure that the "LEVEL 4 and LIMBO" idea is going to make perfect sense in the version I am making.
6) A couple of dream powers will have to be limited, like teleporting and the like.
7) I am pretty sure that the only person that can change dream things in a dream, is the dreamer.
So I think that what I am missing here is that small things can be changed by all the people. After rewatching (again) I see that Eames is showing dream control all the time even though he isn't the dreamer until deep down. I think that things can be easily manipulated, but things like environment, are at the mercy of the architect.

So when you say "DCs don't attack you just because you know you are dreaming", that is actually true in the movie too. Remember, Ariadne asks "What, they are going to attack us?" "No... just you."

I think that I am going to be going dream sequence by sequence. I will have to rewrite some of the waking life and make it more about "Lucid Dreaming" and "shared dreaming". I have a bunch of ideas on how to change and add things, but let me hear all of your ideas.

So many cool things left out of the movie.