Inception -- I came (for the spoilers)

08-02-2010 04:56 AM #1
boost View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Join Date Mar 2005 Posts 11,278	Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer But you were not allowed to touch other's tokens ever; wasn't that one of the first tests he cooked up for Ariadne? I'm not sure I completely get the totem thing either, but I think you have one specific backwards. Your totem is yours and yours alone. You are not to let anyone else handle your totem. You can mess with anyone elses totem, its up to them to keep it to themselves.

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08-09-2010 12:22 AM #2
WildBobAA View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Join Date Aug 2005 Posts 4,701	Originally Posted by boost I'm not sure I completely get the totem thing either, but I think you have one specific backwards. Your totem is yours and yours alone. You are not to let anyone else handle your totem. You can mess with anyone elses totem, its up to them to keep it to themselves. The purpose of the totems was to allow the dreamers to determine if they were in a dream at the present time or in reality. Example: Arthur's totem was a loaded die. We can assume that when rolled in the real world, it would roll the same number every time. Say that Arthur entered Cobb's dream. Well Cobb knew Arthur had a loaded die, but he didn't know which number it was loaded to. So if Arthur was in Cobb's dream, we can assume that the loaded die would behave like a normal die. This would allow Arthur to determine if he was in a dream by rolling the die. If Cobb got his hands on the die in the real world, then Arthur would have to find a new totem.

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08-09-2010 05:27 AM #3
boost View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Join Date Mar 2005 Posts 11,278	Originally Posted by WildBobAA The purpose of the totems was to allow the dreamers to determine if they were in a dream at the present time or in reality. Example: Arthur's totem was a loaded die. We can assume that when rolled in the real world, it would roll the same number every time. Say that Arthur entered Cobb's dream. Well Cobb knew Arthur had a loaded die, but he didn't know which number it was loaded to. So if Arthur was in Cobb's dream, we can assume that the loaded die would behave like a normal die. This would allow Arthur to determine if he was in a dream by rolling the die. If Cobb got his hands on the die in the real world, then Arthur would have to find a new totem. but how do you know if you are dreaming or not if its your own dream?

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