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EDIT: Has anyone ever carried a certain item like in inception? I know I probably sound stupid bringing this up since inception is a new movie and all the ideas were though up before but... im curious.
No. In real life totems wouldn't work. For example if you had the top like in Inception and for some reason it showed up in one of your dreams and you decided to spin it it would just fall over like it would in reality.

I do have an 'A' (for awake) written on the palm of my hand though and I make a habit of checking it in reality all the time in hopes that I'll check in a dream and become aware I'm dreaming.