<p>Is it not true that other people can not touch your totem, and if so, the totem loses its authenticity?</p>
<p>If Saito spun the top, Cobb’s totem, doesn’t that mean the top’s ability is useless?</p>
<p>I DUNNO, IT WAS A GREAT MOVE THOUGH</p>
<p>After reading that article, I’m starting to think the top falling over doesn’t even matter. If the theory in the article is true- particularly the part about the top spinning differently than it would in the actual dream since Cobb thinks he’s in reality now even though he’s really not- then the top could still fall over with Cobb in limbo, right? </p>
<p>UGH! This is so frustrating… but I love it.</p>
<p>I’ve also heard theories that the kids’ faces are Cobb’s real totem.</p>
<p>^Actually, that would make sense.</p>
<p>Conspiracy theories, while fun, can be really lame sometimes.
I say just take the film for what it is, it’s obviously not like Martin Scorsese train wreck Shutter Island (film adaptations of books with plot twists, except fight club, are sooooooooooooooo overused and disappointing), so don’t try to make it out to be something that it’s not.</p>
<p>Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hotel fight scene was f’ing amazing though.</p>
<p>Here’s another good take on it that I read:</p>
<p>*I don’t think he was dreaming. His wedding ring was missing during that scene. He only ever wears the band during dreams.</p>
<p>But that really isn’t enough. So how 'bout this: While we were watching an inception being performed on the screen, Nolan was performing an inception on our minds. From the very beginning of the movie (once Cobb begins to explain the dangers between reality and the dream world), Nolan has planted the notion in your mind, through Leo’s character, that it was all going to end up being a dream. So by the time the end comes around, you’re like, “Well, yeah! I knew that was going to happen!” But you only “knew” because it had been put there.</p>
<p>Remember how Arthur says, “If I tell you not to think about elephant, what are you thinking about?” This mind**** is much like this except it want presented to us directly. It was slipped in smoothly so, much like a parasite (as Cobb describes) that thought grew in our minds. This is why many have deemed Inception as “predictable”. In all honesty, though, I believe Nolan wanted us to think it was all a dream, thus distracting us from the fact that it was reality. His intention wasn’t to end it all as a dream. His intention was to make us THINK it all ended in a dream.*</p>
<p>^Hahaha, I kind of like that idea. </p>
<p>As much as I wish I could see that one coming right away and get around being a subject of Nolan’s potential inception of the entire audience, I must say that if you’re going to manipulate the audience, that’s the way to do it. ;)</p>
<p>Heres my question:</p>
<p>If dreams within a dreams last longer and real-time changes to the physics within those dreams can be made… How many dream-levels before lag sets in?</p>
<p>I offer two original (like i came up with them…while dreaming last night O_O haha) theories.</p>
<p>1) The old/ancient Saito that Cobb met when washed ashore touched Cobb’s totem, and thus the totem lost its uniqueness since nobody’s supposed to touch it. So it really isn’t a reliable way to measure if we’re in a dream anymore, and so we shouldn’t be placing so much emphasis on it anyway. But since we are, and Saito’s the one who touched it, maybe Saito really “honored the agreement” in the end by trapping Cobb in Limbo with his children, although in real life both their bodies were lost?</p>
<p>2) Mal was really right; Cobb died by drowning in the van, but he was actually in a dream, so when he died he “woke up” and found his kids etc, then after the movie ended we don’t see Mal serving him a sandwich that she just made (it was only a few minutes prior that she herself woke up from having committed suicide so she didn’t miss much)</p>
<p>WHOA i take back my post; after reading [url=<a href=“IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows”>IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows]IMDb</a> :: Boards :: Inception (2010) :: What REALLY happened in the movie. (Lo…<a href=“spoiler%20alert!!”>/url</a>, i find that both of my theories are engulfed by DeadMike187’s theory…fascinating</p>
<p>Just remember Ice that everything that leaves no definite flaw in logic is correct. Doesn’t matter if it is more detailed, or more thought out, if it can be supported but cannot be factually undermined then it is “true”, even if other theories with the same type of support are equally valid and yet can disagree with the first valid theory.</p>
<p>Here’s an interview with the actor who played Yusuf: [Inception’s</a> Dileep Rao Answers All Your Questions About Inception – Vulture](<a href=“http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/inceptions_dileep_rao_answers.html]Inception’s”>Inception’s Dileep Rao Answers All Your Questions About Inception - Vulture) He explains a lot of things.</p>
<p>I’m confused though because he said that the third level was Fischer’s dream. This whole time I’ve thought that it was Eames’.</p>
<p>If it was all in Cobbs mind then we wouldn’t see the scenes that didn’t include Cobbs. Confusing yes, but the movie has many flaws…</p>
<p>Anyway why did Cobbs plant the idea to mal that their world was a dream? They designed the place together so why did she need reminding…?</p>
<p>The ending reminds me of the Lady and the Tiger.</p>
<p>^Ahhh, that’s so true! I read the Lady or the Tiger last year for school and totally forgot about it until now. We had to write an essay on which one we thought it was and why it was the only possible choice, but I forget which one I picked. Maybe that’s why I can’t decide now if the ending of Inception was reality or a dream :D</p>
<p>The totem was losing its momentum, so I think its reality.</p>