You can’t really answer the question often hinted to in Inception, when you take off all of the extra science fiction baggage you are really just left with “is your world real?” Now many people would think that it was a stupid question and that of course their world is real, after all what else could there be? But if you think philosophically about the question you get into “fried noodle territory”. There is no way to justify that your world isn’t real, so we have to assume it is or be thrown into chaos ourselves. What would be the purpose of anything if we were in a “dream world”? And anyway, according to Inception we could probably just kill ourselves to wake up1.
If we were living outside of reality other people wouldn’t be in our dream, except for a few, everyone else would just be a projection of our imagination. Would this mean that by destroying building or killing people we would be destroying our own sub-consciousness? According to the movie we wouldn’t be but I still feel that destruction of parts of a dream would cause the dreamer to forget about those projections it made and possibly the memories under those projections.
Maybe the reason something seems familiar or that time seems to slow down or speed up and other strange phenomena could be caused by the fact that we are all hooked up to a machine in some hospital or military facility. And these oddities are us seeing that we are in a maze before we get distracted or disoriented, similar to trying to remember a dream, even if it just happened.
1 – not a good idea to try out
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