Inception - Is it possible?

A spoiler-free guide to the (potential & actual) science of the movie.

…Do dreams have to obey the laws of physics?

This is a fondly debated topic, and Inception has it both ways. Sometimes impossible things happen - in one dream Paris gets folded like a huge sheet of paper - and optical illusions become “real”. The endless staircases created by M. C. Escher, for example, exist in Inception dreams thanks to a manipulation something like that occurring in 3D virtual environments.

However, the dreams follow some “real life” rules. As writer and producer Jeff Warren wrote about his own dream investigations:

Without sensory input, consciousness appears to behave in predictable ways. Informal laws can be deduced, for example, the “law of self-fulfilling expectations” (what you expect to happen will happen), the “law of narrative momentum” (linger too long in one place and the dream world begins to fray.

In Inception, the dream world “frays” when external influences from the real world intrude.

What is the function of dreams?

Freud thought that dreams expressed our repressed…

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