IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM GO SEE IT BEFORE YOU READ THIS.
“What’s the most contagious and pervasive virus? An idea”.
Inception, what a movie!!!! Here’s the thing, what if we could consciously choose to incept OURSELVES? By that I mean, make a conscious choice to change something fundamental that we want to change about how we perceive our reality.
Think about that for a moment, what if we could change how we perceive ourselves, attain beliefs of unquestionable self worth, beliefs about being definitively good enough, beliefs about anything we choose? Such beliefs are as pervasive as those illustrated so beautifully as in that masterpiece of a film, they mould our reality as well as make it seem pleasant or painful and out of our control.
NLP and hypnosis are tools which have helped thousands of people to do just that, myself included. By changing one seemingly simple belief, we can see positive impact in all areas of our lives.
How do we make sure that we are living our own dream?
The spinning top that featured so dramatically and metaphorically in Inception reminded me of a stone that I picked up on a beach in Wales 3 years ago. I just spotted it and picked it up, without even knowing why. Whenever I felt ungrounded, unsure of anything, I’d touch this stone (which I still carry around with me everywhere) to remind me of what is true, that I am the only truth I know, and that it’s really important to live life now rather than preoccupying ourselves with the past and future. I’ve heard things like this referred to as Gratitude Anchors, which makes sense because they can remind us at times of trouble that life is a gift, our dream to be manifested and treasured at every moment. When we remind ourselves that we are in our dream or reality, and the spinning top keeps spinning, and refuse to live to expectations (others and our own) of who we are, and we live in the paradox that is the “now”, then we know we are living our own dream and creating our own reality rather than letting life happen to us.
Projections
“How can I keep you alive? You with all your complexity, I loved you, you were the best I could do, but look at you, you’re not my wife, you’re a shadow…” The wife, in the mind of the husband, portrayed as beautiful, totally and obsessionally in love, and seductively dangerous. A projection of his own unconscious mind of who his wife was, and no where even approaching who the wife was in her entirety, “in all your complexity”. How do we perceive other people that we know and love so well, in all their complexity? Are they simply mirrors of our own minds or do we truly live to know and love them?
The dream or reality?
Here’s what I want to know…… Was all of the story, from start to finish, a dream constructed by the leads mind, all of the characters a projection of the mains unconscious mind all the way through? If you look really closely to how the characters interact, aren’t they really similar and incredibly like the lead? Don’t they have conversations which are more like the conversations that we have in our heads than those that we have with each other? They seem to be mirrors of each other, with different strengths and weaknesses, possibly real people that the lead met, possibly a combination of the things that he’s seen in other people. They are all people the lead character rapports really well with, they all seem to know him on a very deep level, and all have special significance to him. Because of this they all have their role to play in helping him through the task of inception (even the guy who was being incepted). At the end of the film, after inception has seemingly successfully occurred with Fischer, and the characters are awake on the plane, it’s beautifully suggested that the lead may be still dreaming, which is echoed all the way through customs, and in the amazing final scene. I watched the film again, and if you look closely, there are hints all the way through that the whole story is the leads dream, maybe a highly elaborate dream to help himself to decide to dream and live in the constructed reality of his dreams and memories, rather than live in “reality”? So is the whole story a dream, a construct of the leads mind, and all of the characters projections of the leads unconscious?