Thread: Inception totem

^ That's just your mindset, though. You can't shake the habit of waking up before you die, it's not a law of the dreamworld that can't be avoided like in Inception.

Another example is the "five minutes in the dream is an hour in the real world". Completely untrue.

The laws and methods of dreams in Inception are strictly there for the story--which was all the film had going for it--but are completely confusing when taken as fact.

Originally Posted by Remorseless

^ That's just your mindset, though.

Exactly, that's someone elses mind set, not yours. You kind of just proved their point there... Personally I think the totem is a nice idea and if someone can find something that they connect to, carrying it around might have some effect. Sure depending what the object is it might not work all that well as a reality check, but it could still hold significance to being in touch with your dreams...

I think it's important to point out here that totems could actually be used in real life as dream indicators. For example, if you were to go out and buy a totem like the main character in Inception's, you could train your subconscious to make it spin continuously whenever you're dreaming. It's similar to the case where you tell a DC to tell you you're dreaming in a future dream. The DC doesn't always alert you that you're dreaming, but we don't perform reality checks (nor would one whip out their totem and use it) in every dream, either.
Of course this requires some previous action on the lucid dreamer's part in order to make this work.

In my honest opinion, though, unless you're an Inception fanboy, stick with reality checks.


No offense to any fanboys here.