Just as I promised, I will try to recall what I dreamed about the night after watching Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’. It was a mind bending action thriller about a group of people attempting to plant the seeds of an idea inside a person’s mind through dreams. A two hours plus movie with a plot like that will surely plant something in my mind that will manifest in my dreams. Like I said before, I’m not a lucid dreamer and I prefer not to have full control of my dreams. I like to see what kind of crazy stuff my mind can create in my dreams. I expected to dream about something related to the plot of the movie OR something involving dream within a dream which I have experienced many times. Both didn’t happen but what I dreamt about were interesting and copied some of the imagery from the movie. This is what I was able to recall/record. Enjoy!

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I’m watching an Indonesian TV show (sinetron) about a some demon disguising as a man who tries to create mischief among people. The director shouted “CUT!” and suddenly I was no longer watching the show on TV but actually at the backstage of set where they are shooting the TV show! All the actors froze and things started to float in zero gravity. I was one of the crew members who had to pick up the props and the ‘frozen’ actors back to the store room.

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I’m in a room with lots of people and we were hearing a briefing about crimes and their respective punishments (important later!). After the briefing ended, I was called upon by a group of girls whom some I recognized as my ex-classmates. One of the them asked me if I know the guy who sat in the far corner in my row because one of the girls thinks he’s cute. I told them I didn’t catch a glimpse of that guy. They told me that he just got out of the room wearing a helmet and rode off in a Pizza Hut bike. Trying to help these girls and also to satisfy my curiousity, I took my car and gave that man a chase. I chased him through the city during the heavy rain. Had to navigate through the all the cars and trucks. At one point, the man got off his Pizza Hut bike and were picked up by his friend in a black van. The chase continued while an adrenaline pumping music was playing (yes! Even Hans Zimmer’s score made it to my dream!!). I finally managed to get a glimpse of the guy and I laughed because I didn’t get what the big fuss was about among the girls HAHA

I finished telling my brother the story (all of that was a flahsback). I went off to the city (it’s still in the same metropolis) but it was a bright sunny day. I met my old friend with her little cousin/nephew? (forgot about this…it was little girl). They were trying to go somewhere but didn’t know how to (If I’m not mistaken it was an amusement park). I showed them the way to get there either by train or the bus.

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I’m in a classic Japanese Temple like building. I was being chased by bad guys and I had to go through a series of Japanese sliding doors to escape. It was like going through a maze. Eventually, I ended on the far side of the temple where an elderly Japanese couple reside. Me and two Asians (a guy and a girl) took refuge in this part of the temple. The first thing we need to do was to take a shower. I wasn’t quick enough to take the two good shower rooms so I had to go to the large and shared shower room that looks like it came straight out of prison. Next thing I know, I suddenly had an orange jumpsuit on and they were others too in that shower room wearing the same thing.

A North Korean soldier (I just knew he was North Korean) came in. Surprisingly, he was a bit friendly and joked around a bit. People laughed but I thought he was lame. He started to test us by asking several questions.He asked one guy about the punishment for a particular crime. The guy got it wrong but surprisingly he wasn’t punished. My friend, who was also there, answered it correctly because he remembered it from a briefing earlier (THE SAME BRIEFING THAT I HAD FROM THE PREVIOUS DREAM!) The North Korean soldier then asked me a question about a tribe called ‘Sukoi?’ (or something like that). I honestly didn’t know the answer so I said some bullshit. He gave me a disappointed look and told me that it is a Greek tribe that lived in Japan (BTW, It doesn’t really exist…I googled). That North Korean soldier didn’t like me that much and I didn’t like him too.

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So what weird dreams did you have after watching the movie?

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For more stuff about my dreams:
http://trylobyte.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/a-dream-within-a-dream/
http://trylobyte.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/i-have-a-dream/