Psychological Principles In The Film Inception

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A psychological principle that appears in the film Inception is dreaming occurs following very deep sleep. During the film, Cobb and his crew invade people’s dreams once they are in REM sleep: the last stage (stage 5) of dreaming known as rapid eye movement. During REM sleep, the scene feels real and the person asleep always reports vivid dreams. REM sleep occurs when the sleep cycle starts to move backwards toward stage. The brain engages in low-amplitude, fast and regular beta waves much like the awake-aroused state. The body also experiences increased heart rate, rapid breathing, and immobility. When Cobb and his team enter people’s dreams, it fails to conform to the psychological principle I have identified because I have not studied or read anything about it being possible for people to enter other people’s dreams or share dreams. This theory just appears in the movie, to make the plot more interesting and nothing like that happens in the real world. …show more content…

This occurs in the movie when Author plans his kick, so everyone wakes up at the same time. He focused on synchronizing his kick with all of the other kicks. Arthur blew up the elevator to wake them up from the snow fortress dream so they could then be woken up by the car hitting the water. Kicks are based on hypnagogic jerks, which are twitches that accompany a falling sensation. They occur when the equilibrium of the person dreaming is agitated. Kicks bring the dreamer back to reality. When Arthur wakes them up with a kick, it conforms to the psychological principle I have identified because kicks really do happen to people in real life. This topic was discussed during notes. However, someone cannot control how or when a person has a kick, as Arthur did. The topic of having kicks is logical, but the concept of having someone be in control of that is

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