Thread: Inception - Do you like it? - Post your Review

Originally Posted by slash112

telittleone: Awesome! Great to know that people are being affected by the movie, being inspired to Lucid Dream.


DreamViews is a great place to learn. You should introduce yourself here
Also, some good tutorials here

Thanks for the friendly welcome!! I've already read the tutorials and I've decided DILDing is the best for me since I have summer school, and 3 more years of high school and then college.

I thought it was good, not very good. It was a bit too dramatic for my tastes. There were some flaws in logic as well. Like why couldn't they just turn themselves into giant dinosaurs or mecha to defend themselves? It's what I would have done. Definitely one of the season's best films, but it's not winding itself onto my top favorites.

I'm going to be pissed if the lucid cat gets out of the bag because of this movie. I cringe at the thought of an association being drawn with this movie every time lucid dreaming is mentioned. And besides, I like our happy little subculture of lucid dreamers.

Originally Posted by Black_Eagle

I thought it was good, not very good. It was a bit too dramatic for my tastes. There were some flaws in logic as well. Like why couldn't they just turn themselves into giant dinosaurs or mecha to defend themselves? It's what I would have done. Definitely one of the season's best films, but it's not winding itself onto my top favorites.

I'm going to be pissed if the lucid cat gets out of the bag because of this movie. I cringe at the thought of an association being drawn with this movie every time lucid dreaming is mentioned. And besides, I like our happy little subculture of lucid dreamers.

First off I would like to say that I loved this move AS A MOVIE. Great acting. Great effects. Nice sexy man floating around in fight scenes that rival the matrix.

But this has got to be one of the worst lucid dreaming movies out there!!

I agree with Black Eagle (and any others, haven't finished reading this thread). The dream logic made no sense. After the movie I started complaining to my sisters how lame they were, strictly using guns, never flying if they needed to.

My sisters who know NOTHING about lucid dreaming roll their eyes and explain "Duh, they have to act normal or else the projections will notice them". Okay, I can go with that. Act normal. Don't make the projections suspect anything.

But what about once the projections do suspect them? Why still limit yourself to physics of physical reality? Especially when there's this evil void threatening them if they 'die'? Nothing about what they did in the dream even remotely resembles lucid dreaming - except for when the girl manipulates the dream scape!

The other really annoying part that wanted me to pull my hair out was the injured asian man. Hello! IT'S A DREAM! Why is there some written law that says he can't heal himself. IT'S A DREAM!

This movie is a poor representation of lucid dreaming. Leaves viewers feeling that shared dreaming is escapism instead of an exploration of a different kind of reality. It also carries the idea that people who dwell in the art of lucid dreaming or even shared dreaming are destined to become insane and jump off a roof. I solved this insanity years ago . You levitate from standing position. Not jump. Oh wait, that's right, they can't do that in this movie because for some reason I can't figure out why - none of them could fly.

And I'm not sure why the movie needed the whole plot with a big corporation. Dreams are fascinating enough without needing to add that kind of drama.

I like this movie as a movie. But lucid dreaming? No.

The only valuable lucid dreaming skill it teaches is to use a totem to question reality.