Waiting is one of the most difficult tasks in this world. especially when the event you wait for is a certainity. whether it is a few minutes of waiting in the Q at McDonalds or a few weeks for a call letter to arrive..All the carefully constructed plans and ideas for the much awaited and longed for relaxation falls into pieces and gets blown away in the air within a day or two , giving way to impatience and restlessness of the wait. The end result - watching useless crap on tv, over eating, staring at the ceiling watchign lizards mate or simply circling around the room all day.basically you end up wasting all the precious time way in getting bored, agitated and bored again in an infinite loop.
A chance break from the above cycle gave me an opportunity to watch the movie Inception tonight and compelled me to resume blogging here.My friends had seen it twice already on subsequent days (due to the failure of being able to watch back to back shows) and hence made me believe the reviews to some extent.Still, that hadnt prepared me for the sheer magnificence of the experience of watching it.I am not going to go into a review of the film or begin to praise each and every aspect of it here. that would merely be an annoying echo of an orchestra already doing that job currently.So, i am instead going to write about some other vague random thoughts the film has incepted into my head.or Maybe i just want to break the slumber and continue my blog..
The basic concept of what is real and what is illusion has already been covered in a number of movies before. I loved the Matrix series ( atleast the first two of it ) and got clued into this concept. But this particular film has gone a little further and the idea of dream sharing among a no. of participants like a video conference and the course of events being marked by the participants is rather fascinating.This is like saying all our births or incarnations into this world are like dreams that our subconcious or soul is taking every day. In each of these dreams of our souls, some incidents or personalities become too attached to it and remain as permanent memories which may recur in subsequent dreams or births.We may wake up on our death and may be half awake while sleeping.As in a dream, we never know how a dream began or a particular stage is set in our dream and similarly, never trace why we are born in a particular place in a particular setting but merely carry on from there onwards.Maybe there could be a dream architect who designs the setting for every soul ( God?) or its the equations of karma, how we react to in previous dreams? or merely randomness that decides it.All this could be complete bullshit also and where we are now is just plain reality, there are no dreams at all..merely chemicals and electicity over working in our brains when we sleep...
Another interesting parallel I could draw in the film is that the time sequence in the dreams differs from relality, that our brains process data faster and time seems to slow down. In ancient Hindu legends,there is this concept of time difference between the astral worlds and human world. Ofcourse, this is just in the bed time stories that my mom used to tell me and I am not sure of its authnticity in the religious texts, though I think the Gita says some stuff like the life we lead is all an illusion etc. etc.still, if we assume that our souls revolve outside this illusion , then every lifetime on earth may still amount to the dream time for the subconcious( soul).
Our ancestors might have spent their lifetime thinking on all this stuff but as of today ,we are immersed under all the science and technology being created that it sounds so totally exotic and fascinating when people are suddenly reminded of such basic questions of what is true and false through this medium of virtual reality.
