Chapter 1,669 The Scientific Possibility of 'Inception'
Soon Zhou Qingquan also wrote a long review in "Film Weekly".
""Inception" is said to be a brain-burning film, but in fact the entire film has very clear layers. The images are interlaced without being cluttered, making the audience deeply drawn into the movie from the first frame. "Inception"
"The sense of logic and the richness of the plot really amazed me.
Such a film full of whimsical ideas, what facts does it hide that we are extremely afraid of?
First, let’s talk about dreams: the whole movie revolves around “dreams”. In the movie, the complexity of dreams has far exceeded my imagination. The movie unfolds a total of six levels of the world. Reality, one
The first layer of dreams, the second layer of dreams, the third layer of dreams, the fourth layer of dreams, and the lost dream. We normal people live in reality, and when we fall asleep, we will enter the first layer of dreams, but we do not stop at the first layer of dreams.
That is to say, we can continue to dream in dreams, and dreams within dreams are what the movies call the second level of dreams.
In addition to the layered sense of dreams, I really appreciate Nolan's shaping of dreams. We can clearly see the differences in these four levels of dreams. In the first level of dreams, our consciousness is the most complex and the picture is the most complex.
When it is rich; but on the second floor, the dream scene becomes a hotel; on the third floor, there is only a lonely fortress; on the fourth floor is the endless desolate sea. This is in line with our logical understanding
We know that the deeper the dream, the weaker the consciousness. This is why the protagonist and his party go to great lengths to enter the deep dream to plant the dream. Because this can make the person who is implanted in the dream think that this idea comes from the heart.
Rather than being forcefully indoctrinated.
I believe that after watching the movie, many people will have a thought, are we living in a dream?
In the design of the film, our brains are running very fast when dreaming, so time in reality slows down relatively. Five minutes in reality is equivalent to one hour in a dream. As the dream deepens, time will change.
Slower, even for decades. The seemingly fantasy design is full of logic, which makes it impossible for us to find problems, but also makes us ask, are we also living in a dream? We are now
Is the reality we believe to be true also one layer among our many layers of dreams?
I don’t know if you have tried to recall your childhood memories. I often try to recall my childhood memories, but I always come up blank. This makes me wonder where we come from? We seem to be used to everything around us, but
Does anyone know how we ended up in this environment? Just like in a dream, we always suddenly enter a scene, but we can never remember how we got into this environment. Although these strange things
Wonderful thoughts may never have answers, or may even be absurd, but at least they give us an interesting direction to understand the world.
Many times I imagine that one day I suddenly woke up and found that I just fell asleep in a class in junior high school. I looked out the window at the playground and the classmates around me. Everything was so familiar and full of hope, but this was just
Fantasy, we can never go back to the past, we cannot change what has happened, life will always go on, all we can do is to face the next life with hope, instead of immersing ourselves in our own fantasies and feeling depressed.
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Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. We are often unwilling to accept the cruel reality, but dreams are illusory. Although dreams can help you temporarily escape the pain of reality, they cannot help you completely get rid of reality. If you are immersed in a dream
The beauty of life will only make us unable to accept reality. A person who cannot accept reality will definitely be eliminated by society and destroyed by dreams.
We are the stuff of dreams, a dream surrounds a short life
Life is like a dream, full of beauty and cruelty. In this big stage of life, you may smile, suffer, be angry, or cry. Our life is as short as a dream. When we look back on the past, can we take it easy?
What regrets? Since we are going to walk in this world, why not walk openly and smile happily? No matter how bumpy the road under our feet is, we must move forward and write our dream life."
Du Xianghai also interpreted this movie from another perspective.
"First of all, let's start with a story. This story is called "I can't hold it in anymore, I can't hold it in anymore." It tells the story of a little boy who was looking for a toilet in a shopping mall because he had to urinate urgently.
At first, the little boy was looking for a toilet everywhere because he had an urgent need to urinate, but every time he found a toilet, it didn't work. It was either tall, scary, or weird. Later, the little boy discovered that
He is dreaming.
When he discovered that he was dreaming, the little boy did not wake up. He woke up in the dream, then "retreated" to another dream (we call it the "new dream" here), and then in the "new dream"
Li finally found the toilet and was "liberated", but when he really woke up, he found that he had wet the bed.
Is this scene extremely familiar? Don’t say you never had such a dream when you were a child.
Waking up from a dream and realizing that you are dreaming is called "lucid dreaming" in psychology. This is a scientific fact.
The dream situation design in the movie "Inception" is based on "lucid dreaming".
As shown in the movie, many times people will have "lucid dreams", which means the dreamer knows that he is dreaming.
I remember someone once conducted a survey and designed a questionnaire, which received nearly 3,000 responses. When asked "Have you ever had a dream in which you knew you were dreaming?" 65% of the people answered "yes", and 25% answered "Yes".
% of people answered "no" and the other "not sure".
Women answer "yes" more frequently than men, and younger people answer "yes" more often than older people.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Among the same people, 34% said that they can control their dreams, but more than half of them denied that they could do so. When answering "Yes"
"Among the people, the distribution of gender and age shows the same pattern as the previous question.
As people age, they report that their dreams become shorter, less vivid, and less wild than before.
So let’s take a look, is it possible for the ideas in our brains to be stolen?
I believe this is also the question that many viewers are most concerned about after watching "Inception".
Some medical experts said that with the current level of technology, such as MRI scanners, magnetoencephalography and other technical means, it is possible to capture people's brain fluctuations, thereby obtaining information fragments from other people's dreams and restore them to black and white images, but it is not yet accurate.
Analysis, because these images are very local and single, they cannot be as precise as those described in "Inception". However, it will be possible to "control" the consciousness of others through dream implantation in the future. At present, scientists have successfully intervened in mice.
The chemical activity of the brain causes it to run counterclockwise.
Researchers say functional MRI scanners may one day be able to record and reconstruct a person's dreams without the hassle or danger of sharing dreams as depicted in movies.
In a paper published 34 years ago, the philosopher predicted that one day in the future, people may be able to do such a "translation": infer the content of a person's dreams based on the observed physiological phenomena while sleeping.
Such as fear, falling from a height, eating something cold, or even buying a ticket to New Haven for $12.65 but forgetting which pocket you put it in.
In fact, as early as the 1950s, scientists discovered that people go through a special stage when sleeping: the brain is highly active and the eyeballs move rapidly under the eyelids. Most people who are awakened at this time will report that
, I have just been dreaming, and dreams are often quite vivid. Therefore, scientists call this sleep stage rapid eye movement sleep, and believe that vivid dreams appear at this stage.
At that time, scientists had noticed that people's dreams may appear in "rapid eye movement sleep" during sleep, a stage between deep sleep and light sleep. They found that: rapid eye movement, which is mainly about up and down movements, is associated with reports
The dream about picking up a basketball from the ground and shooting it is relevant; everyone dreams, and those who claim not to dream just don’t remember it.
For decades, the phenomenon of rapid eye movements during dreaming has aroused the curiosity of many scientists: What is the relationship between dreams and eye movements?
Some people think that eye movements are random, and the purpose may just be to keep the eyelids lubricated. Others speculate that eye movements have "deep meaning" and may correspond to the dream world. However, this speculation is difficult to verify experimentally. There are some
The preliminary study woke the subjects from sleep, asked them to describe in as much detail as possible what scene they had just dreamed about, and then compared the direction or frequency of eye movements recorded before waking the subjects. Unfortunately, it is limited by the inaccuracy of subjective reporting.
However, the results obtained by such studies are often conflicting.
So I further speculated that dream researchers will acquire a technical hobby in the future, which "can influence, guide, and change the creative process of dreams, stop dreams, restart them, and even change the order of presentation, and prevent or distort people's understanding of dreams."
The memory process of dreams”.
This is exactly the same idea as the movie "Inception". It's just that the film director used this technology on the dark side. He made the protagonist Cobb in the play a thief who can sneak into other people's dreams and steal secrets. He even
Ability to plant thoughts in other people's dreams that the other person did not originally exist.
In the movie, the sharing and control of dreams is achieved through an instrument called PASIV; drugs and electromagnetic stimulation work together through PASIV. In reality, there is a technology called "transcranial cortical magnetic stimulation"
, it is indeed possible to change a person's brain activity by inputting pulsed magnetic fields into the target brain area. However, this method has only been used in the awake state so far, and the main purpose is to relieve depression or prevent epilepsy.
So the second question is, can dreams be controlled?
The easiest way to experience lucid dreaming is to often train yourself to ask this question when you are drowsy: "Am I dreaming?" Some people who are obsessed with video games are especially good at this kind of lucidity.
Dream, perhaps because they spend several hours every day concentrating on completing a task.
The dream stealing experts in "Inception" are highly trained and are also good at this. This may be the reason why they can complete complex tasks (such as reading in dreams). For most people who have lucid dreams, they
It is difficult to do this. In "Inception", some characters can also arm themselves in their dreams to prevent other dream stealing experts from invading their dreams.
Regarding dream time, does dream time really slow down?
In "Inception", time in dreams is much slower than in the real world, and there is a so-called "scaling effect", that is, if you have another dream in your dream, time will pass even slower.
Therefore, 5 minutes in real life is equivalent to one hour in a dream, and 5 minutes in a dream is equivalent to a week in a secondary dream.
This virtual description of dreams and real time may be the highlight of "Inception". However, apart from marveling at the ingenious conception of this movie, at this stage, there is no evidence to prove this. In fact,
In studies of lucid dreams, researchers have found some evidence that at least when dreamers wake up, their perception of time changes as described above.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For researchers, a more pressing question is what happens when our brain's perception of time has problems. In fact,
Although the illusion of time is generated by the brain itself, like the plot of "Inception," this illusion also puzzles scientists.
Next question: Do dreams within dreams really exist?
After watching "Inception", I think everyone knows what is a dream within a dream, and a dream within a dream, as the name suggests, is to go from one dream to another dream. Many people have said that they have had the experience of a dream within a dream.
Modern psychology believes that the first level of dream is the easiest to be recognized by the brain. When we realize that we are dreaming in the dream (that is, lucid dreaming), we try to wake up from the dream, only to find that we are still in the dream.
, this is the second dream.
Just like what is said in "Inception", the deeper the dream within the dream, the more dangerous it is. It may be difficult to wake up, or it may never be possible to wake up.
Research has found that when people actually enter a dream within a dream, the function of the thalamus is actually continuously suppressed. At this time, people are easily lost and controlled by dreams. You can no longer distinguish between dreams and reality. You feel like you are dreaming, and you realize that you are dreaming.
The feeling of being in danger but unable to escape is equivalent to death. American psychologists once studied 150 people who experienced near-death experiences, many of whom experienced dreams within dreams. Their descriptions of terrifying dreams that were difficult to escape were basically the same.
It can be said that "Inception" contains so much science about dreams. I have to admire the director and screenwriter for being so awesome. Many classic science fiction films in Hollywood respect scientific facts very much, although there are many
There are elements of exaggeration in places, but film itself is art. It is based on science, but is higher than science, and even rises to the level of morality, ethics and philosophy.
