Concepts from Inception are invading my dreams

**AstralFlare** · 01-13-2011 05:46 AM

So last night I had one of the wierdest yet most amazing dreams ever. I don't really remember much about it like visuals or conversations, it's one of the most complex dreams I've ever had, but from what I do remember, the concept, I can instantly recognise that it's been heavilly influenced by Inception.

Basically, my dream last night was about time travel, but it wasn't just simply traveling through time, I was traveling back in time through different layers of time (i.e. dream layers). Much like Inception when they try to bring them selves out of the dream, they come back to reality layer by layer, eventually I had to go back into the past, layer by layer. I specifically remember these visuals of stepping through the different layers of time which I had previously visited on my journey. I could see each one only for a second as I stepped through this bubble back into "reality."

There was five different layers I'd visited and I believe on layer five the dream began to turn into a nightmare, which was why I wanted to return back to the first layer (layer zero, I guess) as quickly as possible. But when I actually returned, I found that three of my partners (there were other people with me) couldn't withstand the journey and there dismembered bodies were lying on the floor squished in pools of blood.

This really was a freaky dream, but it explored concepts I'm really glad it explored. I don't think the theme of my dream was particularly time travel, more than it was exploring different layers in the way that Inception does. I think the idea of time travel (or my memory of it) was me wanting to return to a moment in time that I once was at while I was exploring these layers. As in, the dream developed into a nightmare so I wanted to go back in time to a moment where the dream wasn't a nightmare.

Has anyone else experienced this? I case anyone's interested, this was actually from night two of my mindight drinks experimentation (see the thread "Sugar and Caffene Induced Lucid Dreaming" in the Lucid Aids forum) which is quite pleasing as it's deffinately showing that what I'm experimenting with is in fact increasing the vividness of my dreams and allowing me to reach concepts I've never reached before.

**rkenning** · 01-13-2011 06:38 AM

havent experienced this on the same scale as you but i have had many inception styled dreams and have heard about it a lot from other people on the forum

**N0ahsmind** · 01-13-2011 07:09 AM

first time i became lucid was because i saw the suitcase from inception! But my dreams aren't as deep as yours.

**zebrah** · 01-13-2011 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by N0ahsmind

first time i became lucid was because i saw the suitcase from inception! But my dreams aren't as deep as yours.

Just to be clear every time you change layers you are actually just changing the dream scene. You're not actually going deeper. If you already knew that then I'm sorry. I'm just making things clear,

This does sound super interesting though. I'd love to try and experience something like this. The truth is inception is based on lucid dreaming. The "projections" are dram characters. The briefcase is shared dreaming. The totems are reality checks, and so on. Nolan is a fan of lucid dreaming so it's easy to make these connections.