WARNING: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS! OR THINGS THAT MAY BE SPOILER-RELATED.
So, I am joining the hype. 
I caught Inception last week with Angela and Allen. It took me a while to get the whole thing, but as Ebert said, you have to trust Nolan, that he’ll lead you to the answers soon enough. And he did. thankfully. It was brilliant.
I’ve always been interested with dreams, and I liked how Nolan ventured into concepts concerning that. Some ideas reflect what we have observed about dreams like the feeling of falling will wake you up, the hurt you feel in a dream, or a dream within a dream.
If you ask me, I’ve experienced like 5 levels of dreaming. For real! I should’ve been in limbo by now. Haha. Or maybe I am? :O
I remember I was dreaming then I consciously realized that I need to wake up. So I did. I got up from my bed. I felt my feet touch the hard wood floor. I felt the sunlight creeping against my skin. I opened the room door and walked up to the kitchen to get myself a sip of water. Then for some reason, I felt some heaviness with my body… Some soft thing against my back. Then that’s when I realized I’m still in bed and dreaming. So I woke up again. Haha. I got up and walked towards the door once again. As I opened it, the whole house starts tilting to the side, having all the furniture slide towards gravity. (Here I remember the whole architecture thing in Inception.) There, I once again realized that I must be sleeping. So I WOKE UP AGAIN, got up, got out of my room, and went straight to the bathroom to have a quick wash in the face, just to make sure I’m awake once and for all. I splashed some and looked at myself in the mirror, and to my horror, all my teeth were missing! 
Alam na. I woke up again, frustrated by all this cycle, it’s not even funny anymore! I really wanted to wake up na talaga! Hoping for the best, I went out of my room… to be greeted by THIS GIANT BUNNY staring at me. It went for about a couple more cycles, I don’t know, and I finally woke up in REALITY. It’s funny, frustrating, and freaky all at the same time. Nastress ako. Maybe that was what they call limbo?
I have other freak-dream experiences. Like have you experienced sleep paralysis? It’s when you are completely awake, however, your body is left asleep, and in a middle of a nightmare! You can’t move a limb. You wan’t to escape the dream. You wan’t to wake up but you can’t. You hear things you don’t want to hear. And see things you don’t want to see. This happens to me too many times already that I got used to it. What I do is to either stop panicking and relax and wait for my body to wake or change, shift the scary dream to a more favorable one, with my mind.
Some times before, I am invaded with narcolepsy. I’m just sitting somewhere, resting my head somewhere, then without warning I’m sleeping already. And a deep one, like really vivid dreams. Usually, an average person goes into this deep sleep, called the REM stage, after an hour pa. But with me, no, in that instant my eyes are closed, it happens. And it’s scary. I can’t control it. I try to wake up and then I find myself sleeping again! Combine this and sleep paralysis, and it gets really frustrating. And it happens in the most inappropriate places, in the bus, and in some classes in school! Teehee!
Wow, I just realized how much sleeping disorder shit I’ve been through. Good thing they don’t occur now, as much as before. They should make a movie about me! Nolan, hello! Haha.
So going back to Inception, I’ll give it a 4.5 out of 5, maybe. It’s brilliant but it’s not perfect. Some of the dream elements have flaws within them, projections. It was too literal in a way that it seems impersonal and doesn’t grasp much of the dream concept for the dreamer. Yeah, we saw how Leo struggled with his wife and everything, but for example, the elevator experiment he was performing, was too literal. But that’s just me, I guess. How about you? Any thoughts?
Anyway, I really did enjoy this film and I plan to watch it the second time so I can fully appreciate the story, the amazing visuals, and Gordon-Levitt without all the mindfuck.
P.S. (This entry doesn’t seem to end, doesn’t it?): Ebert rated Salt 4 out of 4! I knew it would be great. Will definitely catch this flick.
Phoebe R. 19 and Pinay, who fancies the small highs of everyday life. She is a freelance model, filmmaker, and an artist in her own definition.
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