'Inception': When We Write About Dreaming

I saw Chris Nolan's film "Inception" on my birthday this week, and within twenty or so minutes, I was already breathless, amazed at how close the ideas about dreaming, collective dreaming, cognition and even top-down processing were such a part of the suspense film. The film itself was a good roller coaster ride that asked the audience to do some work of its own in unraveling the plot, but nothing too cryptic.  For headier work, see the works of David Lynch.

However, when I walked out of the t...