THE DREAM

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THE DREAM
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I had slipped into darkness. I was having one those recurring vivid dreams. I found myself in a museum of sorts. Or nut-see-um…it was hard to tell. I was being chased by a T-Rex or what was left of him, and could see my car (in a dream, they say, you can see 360 degrees; think of billions and billions things aside from the situation you’re in; strangely, I thought of the word ‘Trespassing’) parked at the entrance, blocking people in and out of their way. There was a woman (there is always a woman in a dream) in a long black velvet dress. I could tell it was velvet but I didn’t why. After all, the dreams don’t tell you everything, at least not directly. Deciphering the symbols and puzzles are not the dream's job. It’s your job and although you pay the dream, you can’t fire the dream. That’s how just the dreams are; complex. So, I had to figure out the stunned expression on the woman’s face myself. In a dream you have plenty of time to rationalize things. Was she traumatized out fear for me for being about to be jawed by T-Bone or for herself not to be jawed by T-Bone…or for both of us not to be jawed by T-Bone? Was she someone I knew? Someone I cared for or just the projection of that someone? The presence of women in my dreams is always auspicious even when being chased by T-Bone. For others, it could be ominous sign since dreams belonged to the dreamer in their interpretations.

Dream Levels and Dream Time

In the movie INCEPTION Nolan throws a lot of fancy math at you but it’s all really inconsequential. All you need to really know are the basic concepts:

The dream within a dream process puts you into a deeper state of dreaming. The deeper you go, the further removed your mind is from reality. We all know what that’s like: the deeper you sleep, the harder it is to be woken up and the more vivid and real-feeling a dream becomes. If you’re in a deep enough sleep, not even the usual physical ques to wake up effect you, such as the sensation of falling (“the kick”) or even, say, having to go to the bathroom.

By the time you reach the Limbo state it can be so difficult to wake, and the dream can feel so vividly real, that the mind stops trying to wake at all – the mind accepts the dream as its reality, like slipping into a coma.




When you wake up in Limbo you don’t remember that there is such a thing as a “real world” – as in any dream, you wake up in the middle of a scene and simply accept it for what it is. Breaking yourself out of this cycle is extremely difficult, and you can be trapped in Limbo for years or decades decades.



Time is the other factor. The deeper you go into a dream state, the faster your mind is able to imagine and perceive things within that dream state. We’re told the increase is exponential, so going deeper into dreams turns minutes into hours, into days, into years.


Projections – Dreams feel real to us when we’re dreaming and part of the reason for that is our mind’s ability to construct a faux real-world setting for us to interact with in dreams. Often, that dream is something like a city or any populated area which has other people walking around it. In this image, the dream takes place in a museum, and those, including the woman, people that the unknowing mark populates the dream world with are known as “projections.”