i watched inception sitting just 3 rows from the front, which was absolutely fantastic especially during the tumbly hotel corridor scene where arthur had to fight off fischer's brain security guard while the whole world rotated about him. i've long been fascinated by dreams, and christopher nolan really did a great job constructing this universe, such that it made almost perfect sense even with all its complexity. i liked the representation of how our dreams can get affected by our surrounding environment in real life -- even though sometimes the expression of external conditions seem to get translated too directly into the dream world (eg. being in a falling van outside the dream = being in zero gravity inside the dream). i would have assumed that there should be some transitional distortion, at least that's what happens when i dream! although i've never been dreaming while in a falling van, i've definitely dreamt of dogs barking incessantly at me while in real life, the alarm clock was ringing at full blast.oh and i'm always intrigued by the idea of lucid dreaming -- i think i've probably only had 1 or 2 lucid dreams in my entire life, and i really want to have that ability! one instance which i remember very clearly is when i was in this huge common toilet and a slime monster was chasing me through it, slithering in and out of urinals. i remembered how a friend told me once that if i encounter a nightmare, i should go out into a field, sit on a rock and tell myself "i want to get out of this dream". so with the realization that i definitely wasn't in reality, i did what he told me -- found the rock, sat on it, and told myself to get out. and i did! woke up in cold sweat and with great gratitude that i was nowhere close to being devoured by phlegm.
