The philosophical dialogues in this film inspire me to think about the dreamworld and real life. There might be no absolute difference from waking and sleeping mind. On one hand, no one can prove himself awake, and one can never know whether he is dreaming. All are not lucid dreamers like Wiley, therefore the proposition that “Life is not a dream” is not convincing. We might be dreaming without being aware of it.
On the other hand, “dreams are only real as long as they last.” It is the same about life. “Life understood is life lived”, and dream understood is dream lived. As long as people endow efforts to think with their own minds, dreamworld and real life are equally worthwhile. This film, by presenting intermediate state as “waking life”, shows the blurring boundary between waking and sleeping mind. We can be all dreaming, but it still counts as a real life since we make efforts to understand it. The sleeping mind operates in a logic of the dreamworld, just as the waking mind operates in real-life logic, and we can never know which one is really “real” .
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