Quote Originally Posted by jasonresno View Post
Cosiging ParadoxIllusions post. A totem, like in the film, is there solely to differentiate reality and SOMEONE ELSES dream. The reason you have a totem is so when you go into SOMEONE ELSES dream it still acts reliable to the way YOU know. And that's why nobody is allowed to touch eachothers totem. Because that defeats the point. To know the shape/feel/size/effect of someone elses totem would render it unreliable because then the "architect" (whoever is constructing the dream to "put you in") could recreate your totem and you'd never know the difference.

The reason this wouldn't work in our case is simple. LDs don't work like that. We aren't getting placed within someone elses reality. We are existing in our own mind. And, as you know, our mind knows everything we know. So it would know how our totem works. Thus rendering it unreliable.
Right, but LDing doesn't work like in Inception either. Like I've read before, attempting to levitate an item can be a RC check. Not saying it's the best one, but can be one. So why cant attempting to spin a bottle cap or something for forever work as well? If it never stops, you're dreaming. Not saying I want to try it but maybe for a last resort before killing myself in a dream lol, because I don't want to be spinning a bottle cap every 5 minutes in RL

Quote Originally Posted by ParadoxIllusion View Post
Or, when you put your hands in your pocket, and if it isnt in your pockets in the dream then do a reality check, so it can work both ways.
Will it not start to appear in my dreams consciously (or unconsciously however you say it)?