In the world of Inception, dream-sharing is not just a tool to invade someone else’s mind; it’s a way to construct one’s own subconscious reality. With training, sleepers can learn how to change the content of their dreams at will. However, this intoxicating ability erodes the sleeper’s sense of what’s real and what is a dream. As the dreamers port more and more of their desires and memories into the dream environment, they become increasingly immersed in the world of the dream. Not only does this immersion confuse their sense of reality (with tragic consequences in the case of one character);
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