Boring.Hot Day.Inception

Saturday was a boring hot day. Didn't do much. Just spending time in front of the computer surfing and playing abit of games.

I also watched Inception that I gotten from him last week.

The movie summary from IMDb:

Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

The synopsis of the movie can be found here, if you want to know more about the whole plot without watching the movie.

What are my opinions after watching the movie?

I feel this is a thought intriguing movie. Very often, there are many things we hid from others and even ourselves. Something that we do not wished people to know. But subconsciously, it is still there. May it be guilt, regrets, sadness, disappointment, anger, etc. But some point in time, some people may unconsciously discovers them. Or sometimes, we may subconsciously dreams about it. Then we will realise, they are not gone. Totally unresolved. The only thing that we need to do is to accept it  that it has happened. And learn to let go. Easily said than done.

And yet sometimes, we wondered if the things happening to us is a reality or dream. Sometimes we fall into our own illusion, so deep that we are unable to differentiate from the real one anymore. The desires that one wants something can also be so strong that makes people wanting to do things that may be dangerous or away from the norms.

Lastly, it also shows how much a person's mind can do. Very often, we say things without thinking, but little did we know that a certain word or a certain phrase or even idea can cause a great change in another person's emotions, thinking and even life.

I wondered if we were allowed to go into each other's dreams, would you invite your friends into yours? How about dreams in dreams?

I don't know myself either. Because I do not know subconsciously is there anything I do not want people to know, which me myself doesn't know.

Irony that people always say you wouldn't feel pain in dreams. Yet in this Inception, they do feel pain. Another thing that I had experience that may be true in real life is that what happens in the dream maybe a subset of what happens in reality. Like when the train moves alot, it seems to be an earthquake in the dream. It happens to me a few times, like in the dream I was kicking something, then i was woken up by my own kick in the air. Or another funny one is that I dreamt that I was combing my hair while lying on my bed and the comb dropped from my hair to my chest. In reality, all my hamsters has escaped and was treating my bed and myself as their "playground" and was jumping from my head to my chest!

Reality or dream? 
Spin a top and maybe you will know.