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Chapter 1649 Concepts and Architecture

"Inception" is undoubtedly a classic.

But for viewers who don't want to use their brains, this kind of movie is still a bit difficult to watch.

Of course, Li Yi also needs some time to fully understand the movie script.

This movie was not as easy to shoot as "Source Code".

First, we need to understand the underlying logical design of the film, then the goal, and finally the complete plot story.

The second thing is the script.

Li Yi was not in a hurry, but after his interview with the Sixth Princess was broadcast, it caused a great response.

In particular, the several infinite loop gameplays mentioned by Li Yi can be said to have provided ideas for many people.

However, some people are particularly interested in the story about "dreams" mentioned by Li Yi.

Especially Li Yi’s old friends, each of them is extremely active.

Chen Wen is organizing another BBQ party.

Li Yi actually enjoyed chatting with them about movies, and this time, he would definitely confuse them, so Li Yi agreed immediately.

"Tell me quickly, what's the story about your dream?" Chen Wen asked immediately.

Others were also quite curious.

"Source Code" is already fantastic enough in the eyes of many of them, but listening to Li Yi's previous story about his dream, it is obviously more brain-burning than "Source Code".

Li Yi first briefly explained the plot outline: "The dream stealer Cobb makes a living by stealing dreams. His job is actually no different from that of a professional killer. He takes orders, completes tasks, and gets paid. The only difference is that a professional killer takes people's lives, while a dream stealer sneaks into other people's dreams and steals information when they are asleep.

Both jobs are illegal.

Due to the failure of the mission, Cobb was accused of killing his wife and could not return home. While performing another mission, the wealthy Saito, the target of his dream theft, unexpectedly became Cobb's employer. The powerful Saito asked Cobb to sneak into the dream of his competitor Fisher and implant ideas to make the other party bring down his company on the condition that he would drop the charges and help Cobb return home. In order to go home, Cobb agreed. He reorganized the team, and the new dream builder designed three layers of dreams to implant ideas into Fisher in the form of "dreams within dreams". Although it went through many ups and downs, the team finally completed the mission successfully.

At the end of the story, Cobb returns home and sees his children whom he hasn’t seen for a long time!

"Gone?" Everyone was confused.

"That's it, that's the story!"

"What does dream stealing mean?" Lin Yunbin asked.

“In the concept I designed, the entire dream stealing team is: Dream Builder, Outpost, Disguiser, and Pharmacist!
Of course, the person whose dream is stolen is also indispensable, that is, the target person!

The job of a dream builder is to design dreams and bring the target person into the dream, and the target person will bring his subconscious mind with him; at the same time, the dream builder designs a safe place, and the important information of the target person will be automatically stored in it; the time in a dream is 12 times that of reality!
After setting the dream time, if you die in a dream, you will wake up in reality in advance;
When the dreamer dies, the dream will collapse;
The more outrageous the dream reconstruction is, the sooner the reflection will notice the dreamer and start to attack him;"

"What is the dream master?" Chen Wen was even more dumbfounded.

“In the setting, every dream has a dream owner who shares his or her dreams with others.

The scenes in the dream can be designed by a special designer and then told to the dreamer, so the designer is not necessarily the dreamer. Theoretically, everyone who enters this dream will bring some of their own consciousness projection, but except for the target person, everyone else knows that they are dreaming so their will will not be confused.

The dream designed by the designer cannot be too outrageous or have unrealistic scenes, otherwise the target person will realize that he is dreaming, and his projection will attack others who invade his dream. Of course, if the projection of the target person has undergone special anti-dream theft training, even if the dream scene is very real, the intruder will be besieged by the projection. "Li Yi explained, but the more he explained, the more confused they became.

"No, you're confusing me. Just tell me the complete story!" Zhou Guo said bewilderedly.

"Yes, and how do you know that you are in a dream and not in reality?" Chen Wen asked again.

"This requires the use of a special prop." Li Yi thought of the spinning top, which can be said to be a crucial prop in the entire movie.

“A spinning top! In the concept design of dreams, it never stops and keeps spinning. Because I’m afraid of getting lost, I use a spinning top to distinguish between reality and dreams. It is the totem of the hero’s wife in my setting, and it is also her secret, representing the deepest part of her heart.

The protagonist's wife is also a member of the dream stealing team. However, one day, the protagonist and his wife lost themselves on the edge of reality and dreams while performing a mission. They built a world for two in their dreams. The wife, who was immersed in the fictional world, lost herself and took the dream as reality, unwilling to wake up. The two faced the dilemma of sleeping until old age.

Here we should pay attention to the fact that there are several ways to wake up the dream stealer during the dream stealing process. One is to kick the dream stealer to wake him up, one is to sink him into the water, and the other is to let him die in the dream. However, if the dream stealer misses the signal to wake up, gets lost in the dream, and does not want to return to reality, he may continue to sleep until he grows old.

In order to wake up his wife, the male protagonist found the spinning top, took it away, and implanted ideas into his wife, making her believe that the world she was in was a dream, not reality. He told his wife that death was the only way to get rid of it.

His wife was persuaded by him and committed suicide by lying on the railway tracks with him. The two finally woke up and returned to reality. However, his first experiment of implanting thoughts failed. After waking up, his wife regarded reality as a dream and refused to believe that she was in the real world.

She always thought that only death could bring relief. She asked the protagonist to die with her, but the sober protagonist refused. The lost wife, like a lost top, committed suicide by jumping off a building, and she stubbornly believed that she was living in a dream, and that she would wake up and return to reality after death. Little did she know that the lost self was living in the real world, and this time she was really dead.

Without the spinning top, there is no boundary between reality and dreams. In fact, like the protagonist’s wife, sometimes we need a spinning top to help us distinguish between reality and dreams. "

"Wait, I'm confused again. The protagonist's wife can't tell the difference between dreams because the protagonist took her spinning top?" Chen Wen asked.

"You can say that!" Li Yi thought about it and nodded.

"This is the background setting of the protagonist. Because of this, he has always felt guilty after his wife died. He regretted implanting the idea of ​​death in his wife. At that time, he thought that death was the only way for his wife to wake up from her dream, so he tried his best to persuade his wife to die. However, he never thought that such a tiny idea would spread in his wife's mind like cancer cells and become deeply rooted.

So later when he was implanting ideas into the target task, he accidentally entered the fourth level of dreams and met his older self.

The old protagonist asked him: "Are you here to kill me?"

Facing the equally lost old protagonist, the protagonist learned his lesson and did not implant the idea of ​​death in him. He changed his approach and kept shouting: "Wake up, wake up."

The old protagonist realized that he was in a dream, killed himself in the dream, and returned to reality.

This time, the young protagonist is not lost. He saves himself, frees himself from the guilt he feels towards his wife, and finally does not have to die alone with regrets. "

"Wait a minute!" This time it was Mu Qing who interrupted Li Yi.

"You mean, the self in the dream will affect the reality, but the question is, can you enter your own dream? And talk to yourself?" Mu Qing asked.

"That's the theory!"

"It's over. I'm getting more and more confused. Are you sure the audience can understand it?" Chen Wen said with a look of being fucked by a husky.

“First of all, you must understand the process of dream stealing and the horror of “implanting thoughts”!
First of all, the male protagonist implanted the idea of ​​death into his wife, which led to her suicide; implanting an idea into the target can bring down the entire company. It is terrifying to think about it carefully. Invading other people's minds and implanting wrong ideas is such a terrible thing!
This is why the dream-stealing gang is so terrifying. They can kill people silently and invisibly, instigate suicide in dreams, make them commit suicide in reality, or simply sink into dreams and cannot extricate themselves.

Simply put, it is similar to education. Whether it is school education, family education, or social education, it is all "implanting ideas" in people. Adults are fine because they are mature and can easily distinguish right from wrong, and can automatically abandon some wrong ideas. But children and minors, if they do not receive a good education, once they are implanted with wrong concepts, ideas, and thoughts, the impact may be lifelong, or even devastating. "Li Yi explained.

"So, actually, dream stealing is done by implanting an idea into the target's dream? But how do you enter their dreams?" Chen Wen asked again.

"I mentioned this in the interview. It's actually not important. What I'm thinking about here is using drugs! For example, tranquilizers, drugs that make it difficult for people to wake up from dreams!"

"And I want to emphasize one more point. In fact, stealing dreams is just my way of saying it, because in fact, it means 'implanting ideas' rather than stealing information!"

"Wait, what you say is getting more and more outrageous. How can implanting ideas steal business secrets?" Zhou Guo asked.

"This question is not difficult to explain, right? Simply put, stealing secrets is only the simplest operation of the Dream Stealing Gang. On the contrary, implanting ideas is a more advanced operation!

"Then what about the dream maker? How does one create dreams? They can't just appear out of thin air, right?" Chen Wen asked.

“This is a good question. In real dreams, who creates these dreams?
Is it the dream maker? Actually, no, it is ourselves, or more precisely, our subconscious mind.

The scenes you see in your dreams, the people and things you encounter, and even some fantastic things are all created by your subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind is using this symbolic method to express something to you.

Unfortunately, because this way of expression is too obscure, in 99% of cases, we cannot read or understand it.

The logic of dream interpretation by psychologists is to decipher these symbolic languages ​​and translate them into content that we can understand, so as to better understand ourselves. "

"Then why do we have to influence a person through the subconscious mind? Can't we use other methods?"

“There is a saying that goes like this: respect your reason in small matters and follow your heart in big matters.

What it means is that for some trivial and unimportant things in life, you can usually do it the way your mind tells you it is right.

It reflects the value of the experience accumulated in life. But in some major matters related to the direction of your life, you should listen more to your inner voice.

For example, when you choose a career, you must consider your own interests and hobbies. There is a world of difference in the achievements a person makes when he or she does what he or she likes or what he or she doesn't like.

Where do these inner voices come from? They come from a person's subconscious mind.

Take my story for example. If the target person used his brain to think about the problem and only looked at the pros and cons of things, it would obviously be wiser to inherit his father's company and develop it into a bigger one.

But is this his true inner voice? Not really.

The target person has always had a bad relationship with his father. Even before his father died, his attitude towards him was just two words: disappointment!
This has been bothering the target person. In this case, how can the male protagonist influence and change his mind?
So he used layers of complex dreams to make the other person re-experience the scene before his and his father's death.

In this scene, the father tells the reason for his disappointment: I am disappointed because you blindly followed me instead of doing what you really wanted to do.

Such a setting not only reconciled his relationship with his father, but more importantly, made him feel that his father supported him in being himself.

So, the end result was that he chose to start his own business instead of inheriting his father's company, and the protagonist's plan to implant ideas was successful.

This is the connection between the subconscious and the direction of our lives. Psychologist Jung has a wonderful discussion on this:
"Your subconscious mind guides your life, and you call it destiny. When the subconscious mind is revealed, destiny is rewritten."

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is called dream creation, but in fact, to some extent, it is somewhat similar to hypnosis. To the target person, on the surface, he seems to have been calculated because he is finally influenced by the protagonist.

But he also benefited greatly from it in terms of his relationship with his father.

In his dream, he found that his father still loved him, and the relationship between the two was reconciled.

In the future, he no longer has to live with the heavy burden of not being accepted or recognized by his father. This is a relief for him.

Therefore, for some people with psychological trauma, dreams can sometimes have a healing effect.

Therefore, dreams are not only an expression of the subconscious mind, but also the fulfillment of deepest desires.

Only by understanding our dreams and treating them as a tool and a way to understand ourselves can we have the opportunity to see the hidden qualities in ourselves and become a better self.

The same principle applies to seeing a psychologist, just as people with psychological problems go to see a psychologist. The psychologist also influences you more by influencing your subconscious mind!"

(End of this chapter)