Essay: Reality and Inception
Inception is a movie following a man named Dom Cobb who is a thief who steals thoughts from people’s deep sub conscious through the use of dreams, this is the act they call extraction. Dom is the best at this in the movie and such has made him a valuable asset to some and a dangerous fugitive to others. During the movie Dom and his team are offered a chance at redemption but they have to do something never done before, this being instead of extracting and idea planting one in someone’s mind. Long story short Cobb and his team eventually pull of the reverse heist. This is a fantastic movie, however, it has a very deep philosophical meaning and concept at its core, this concept being reality.
This film throws a big curve ball into the concept of
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Descartes then stood to reason that he knew he was in fact thinking and that then leads to the fact that he exists; this belief then lead to Descartes famous saying “I think, therefore I am.”
The film and Descartes ideas kind of go against each other and also have some similarities. For instance, in the film Dom Cobb is able to think about whether or not he is in a dream and is able to be fully aware of whether or not he is possibly in a dream world or not. One thing however that Descartes reasoned and is very prevalent in the film is that Descartes believed we could not dream about something that we have not already previously experienced in our real world. The film also shows this concept, which was also shared by David Hume, in that in when the person who would enter the dream world created the world or “levels” they were unable to create the world without knowledge of things they had previously experienced in the real world.
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Therefore in the film all of the dream world was created from experiences of cities,
This is idea is shown through Descartes’ Painter Analogy, where he states, “painters themselves, even when they study to represent sirens and satyrs by forms the most fantastic and extraordinary, cannot bestow upon them natures absolutely new…” (Descartes, Meditation I, para. 6). Basically what Descartes’ is saying is that the mind cannot create something entirely new, it must have some sort of memory or experience with whatever they are creating or thinking, even if it may seem abstract. For example, take the human face, which can be recreated during a dream. However, although the face might be entirely new to the dreamer, it is most definitely an amalgam of different faces they experienced while in a waking state. While the eyes, nose, mouth, face and hair may be from all different people put together on one face, the dreamer still had to experience each of those facets to have them in the dream. Experience is needed to dream, and even though we may not be sure if the information we receive is dreamt or experienced, there still has to be some base knowledge where a waking experience is required. While we cannot tell for sure if an individual moment is dreamt, we can say for sure that there is a state of waking, where we experience the world through a more truthful
Within the film Inception, the basis of it’s plot and understanding is formed around the interpretive styling of psychological principles. The most notable principles seen in the film are the usage and effects of the unconscious mind, the role of perceptual sets, and the application of lucid dreaming. This film incorporates the use of lucid dreaming into the main character's job of extraction, while we see the effects of the unconscious mind and perceptual sets affect his ability to correctly perform his ultimate task of inception. The movie itself while exploring the realm of the unconscious and its effects on cognition and perception, also strays from the clinical explanation of lucid dreaming, and it’s role on the dreamer themselves.
A common definition of dreams according to “Patterns for College Writing” is “the symbolic representation of mental states”, but this sparse definition does not begin to encompass the complex mechanisms behind dreams and its effects on human culture around the globe. Dreams have long been the topics of folklore and urban legends. Since human beginnings, people have sought to uncover the origin of dreams. The ancient Greeks believed dreams came from the God Oneiroi. The Chinese believes that dreams happened when the hun or spirit leaves the body for the land of the dead. The Ishi Indians believed that dreams were sacred messages from the Gods. Yet even now, with the current technological and intellectual advancements, scientists and psychoanalysts have still to find the true reasons and meanings of these dreams. Some argue that dreams are the products of overactive subconscious minds while others argue that dreams are solely randomized emotions from the limbic system during sleep. Despite these contrasting theories, the truth of the matter is that the topic of dreams and the reasons behind them remain a mystery.
eternal dream. It would mean that your body or what you believe to call a
dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” This quote by Carl Jung provides a brilliant overview of his concept
According to dreams in the ancient world persons light is believed to be consists of knowledge. It is believed that there are three worlds for a person one is here in the world; the other is in the other world and, third one in intermediate state which is the state of sleep. The intermediate state helps the person helps the person to see both the states.“On being born hat person assuming his body, becomAes united with all evils: when he departs and dies, he leaves all evil behind”(p125). The intermediate state does not have any roads; no joy’s no happiness’s but himself.
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...y of thinking while others take a dream as our guides . The type of dream Hughes is
The human psyche has a vital role in psychology, including the way humans interpret dreams and their sequence. Humans do not want to remember the truth of reality so we try and hide it in order to forget about it through the process of dreaming. Except, while trying to forget about the past, it leads to
Let’s say that this person told you that any dream that exists can’t only exist in our own heads. Everything we’ve ever dreamed, in one way or another, has been dreamed before. The people, the characters, the names, the faces. All of the colors, locations, feelings, and shapes have all been in the thoughts of another dreamer. That dream you once had, where that guy is chasing you down a long and dark hallway has been dreamed by someone else before. That guy has been chasing people for centuries. And that other dream you had, the one where you’re falling and falling and you jolt awake? Millions of people have fallen from that same place.
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Inception is a 2010 action, adventure, and science fiction film. The film is a constant battle against time within a dream world. The characters involved gain a sense of awareness because of the fight against reality and time. This is a realistic and antirealistic film and contains many different themes that one can relate to and connect with.
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” – this quote by author Alfred Lord Tennyson achieves to introduce an interrogation many have had over the years, and presumably ever since the notion of dream was invented. Indeed, the idea of dream argument questions whether it is possible for a human to be certain that he is awake or not. This quote illustrates the difficulty there is to decide was is true and what isn’t. It questions our perception, our judgment, and in a larger way the world we are surrounded by. I remember hearing my parents say “don’t worry, it was just a dream”. But isn’t it scary to imagine that the life I live presently is in fact one vast dream? And if it were the case, whose dream would it be? Do I have proofs that I am fully awake?
Dreams can be bizarre, one moment the dreamer is being chased by a killer in the jungle, when suddenly the dreamer is in Paris sitting with friends having a cup of coffee. Most people dream every night while they are sleeping, yet they have no idea why they are dreaming what they dream. Dreams are a fascinating and puzzling topic, since the ancient times people have analyzed and researched dreams. Although an extensive amount of research has been collected, no one has found enough concrete evidence for a definite reason people dream what they dream and in fact why people dream at all. A major reason being that only the dreamer can experience and retell the dream. There are many theories, most scientists agree with. Dreams are visual images that occur usually during sleep, moreover; there are many theories on why people dream and types of dreams, ranging from thoughts of the day, to fear, to the desires and emotions of a person mixed without rational thoughts.
Descartes is clearing away all knowledge that can be called into doubt. By doing this he hopes to create something real and lasting in the sciences, a foundation to build on. This indisputable fact will become the starting point or origin of all other true knowledge he can build upon it. He starts the first argument by attacking the very beginning of knowledge, human senses. Descartes states, "Surely whatever I had admitte...