Lucid Dreaming In The Film Inception

Within the film Inception, the basis of it’s plot and understanding is formed around the interpretive styling of psychological principles. The most notable principles seen in the film are the usage and effects of the unconscious mind, the role of perceptual sets, and the application of lucid dreaming. This film incorporates the use of lucid dreaming into the main character's job of extraction, while we see the effects of the unconscious mind and perceptual sets affect his ability to correctly perform his ultimate task of inception. The movie itself while exploring the realm of the unconscious and its effects on cognition and perception, also strays from the clinical explanation of lucid dreaming, and it’s role on the dreamer themselves. You see the role of the unconscious throughout the movie, as the premise of which the main character’s objective revolves around the taming of the unconscious to achieve the desired extraction. The lack of the ability to handle this is seen most predominantly in the scene

This was shown perfectly with an example done by Sanford where he deprived people of food for up to four hours, and showed them equivocal images. These people had responses that were much more linked to food than those that were not deprived of food (Mcleod 2009). This link to emotional, psychological, or even physical needs shows how a subject is more inclined to perceive a certain situation a specific way based on their interpersonal view. Unlike the unconscious mind, these perceptual sets are much easier to identify the root of their cause, but similar to the unconscious they have a major influence on behavior and