*SPOILERS FOR INCEPTION*

Hello everyone! I don't think this is my first post here, but I've been absent from this site for a few months and I'm only just coming back now

Anyway, I bought Inception at the weekend and I watched it earlier on in the week. Needless to say, much like everyone else after watching it I was slightly confused! I have been practising lucid dreaming for almost a year now so I understood the concept of 'waking up' inside a dream, and the idea of the 'dreamer' filling the dream with projections of their own subconscious. However, some other stuff was in the movie that I didn't know if it happened during lucid dreaming or not.

For example, when Dom is stabbed by Mal during the last part of the movie in Limbo and he is in obvious pain. In lucid dreams, do you feel pain? I always thought you didn't feel pain, but only the force of actions, e.g. hitting the ground after falling from a plane wouldn't break your bones, but you would definitely feel the force of hitting the ground!

Another thing was the idea that you should never recreate places from the real world, otherwise you might become confused about which world is actually reality or not. Is that true? Or does dreaming of real life places or events not matter that much?

Thanks for any help!