Analysis Of The Book Dreams By Christopher Nolan

Running head: INCEPTION PERCEPTION Inception Perception Olivia Young 29-02 AP Psychology Inception Perception Inception is a film about dreams and being able to explore people’s subconscious by entering their dreams directed by Christopher Nolan (Nolan, 2010). Dom Cobb is the main character who must plant an idea into a billionaire s son’s mind, to break up his father’s empire. This is not Cobb’s motive though, he is only doing this to be able to return to his children. He needs the pardon from Saito, who hired him to perform the inception, because he is believed to have killed his wife. The truth is that she killed herself and left in her will that he killed her, to encourage Cobb to commit suicide with her. She believed that†¦show more content†¦The idea of exploring someone s subconscious is the dream state, which is when you enter someone’s dream. This is designed by the architect and filled with projections of the person’s subconscious. In the state, your conscious is lowered and if not previously info rmed of entering the dream state, you will perceive it as reality. If you enter a dream within a dream, you are delving deeper into the person’s subconscious. That is where secrets and important information is kept within your layers of consciousness. If you delve deep enough, you will reach the edge of your subconscious. This is dangerous though because to return to reality, you need the kick to be synchronized among all the layers of the subconscious. If you spend too long in the dream state, the lines of reality and dreaming can become blurred. In the movie, Cobb and his team are delving into Fischer’s subconscious to plant the idea for him to break up his father’s empire (Nolan, 2010). To do this, they must go very deep and plant the simplest of ideas, so his subconscious will run with it so consciously he will make the decision. They used him and his father’s relationship, because that is the root of the idea they need to plant. It is not revealed i n the movie though if the inception worked (Nolan, 2010). To be conscious is to have awareness of ourselves and our environment (Myers, 2011). Freud proposed the idea the our conscious was divided into the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. The