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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
(and no, Alex, obstacles in dreams are not solved by simply making them disappear by virtue of the dreamer's godly power of creation)
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Why not?
If the whole thing is a dream then all the stuff about totems is bull**** that must have been foisted off on Cobb somehow, even though he's an expert in this stuff. Presumably it is a tool to strengthen Cobb's belief that the first dream level is the real world. Or we have to assume that Cobb's totem was compromised off screen since it is shown working (that is, falling).
Secondly, all the stuff about Limbo is bull**** because that level is then simply another constructed level used to reach Cobb's final catharsis.
Are there really different layers of dreaming or is it all just actually single layer with them moving from one part of the maze to another? Is there really any time dilation in dreams, there's no longer any objective reason to believe so since we have no knowledge of how fast time is passing in reality. Is the stuff about sedatives all just made up to strengthen the reality of the fake? The explanation of aggressive projections must be a lie (but they're a bit of a plot hole anyway) story since presumably Fischer is a co-conspirator and perfectly aware he's dreaming.
All that's left is "you can share dreams and in doing so impact their reality." Everything else in the movie can be accepted or dismissed at will without impacting the credibility of that conclusion. But even that isn't entirely there, why can't it be that the whole movie is the natural dream of a damaged psyche working through guilt over his wife (that is, maybe the whole movie is the dream of DiCaprio's character from
Shutter Island).
So, having determined that two or more of the core rules of this presented world are lies, what else is a lie and how do you decide?
That's my view of the "it's all a dream" theory anyway.