One: How exactly did they end up sharing dreams? I don't understand. Does the machine they hook up to somehow act as a train for each person's subconscious to the same destination? I missed that explanation. I don't know how that many people can end up in the same dream.
Two: Even though they've calculated how much faster time goes in dreamtimes, shouldn't brain capacity have some influence there? They said that BRAIN FUNCTION speeds up, not time itself. If the brain FUNCTION itself increases rather than TIME, I ask you all, my fellow thinkers, should not there be a difference in how fast each person functions in a dream? Leave behind my confusion about how everyone shares dreams. I'll accept that for the sake of this question. After all is said and done, each individual's brain FUNCTION varies, and therefore so should their dreamtime-speed.
So if the dreamer is slower than other people in the dream, then dreamreality would move slowly and they may become frustrated with delayed responses and such. If, on the other hand, the dreamer is faster than other people in the dream, then the others would not be able to function and might get hit by a car or something like that. Use your imaginations for those two scenarios before you move on to the third option I'm going to extend, because it is a good one.
If all of the people in the dream have different brain function capacities and therefore different dreaming speeds, then some people will function to fast and others will function too slow. Can you imagine all the mayhem that would cause? I cannot...though I can imagine quite a lot of mayhem. So how on EARTH or in SUBCONSCIOUS can any team goal be accomplished with dreamsharing?
My immediate answer is drugs. These people need to be on drugs to fix their brain functions to the same levels. These drugs must enhance or damage their brain function so they can all interact normally in identical time dimensions. And it can't be permanent, or the drugs would create geniuses and fools alike in realworld reality.
The end.
Although, it's not really the end. I want to hear from anyone who has seen the movie enough to remember, understand, reflect on, or hypothesize about the answers to my questions. I would like to know the truth and other's opinions, not just my conclusions I made up on the spot.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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4 comments:
I really like the thought you put into the film and I think you have good questions.
I hate to make the answers simple on well thought out questions, but I'm not too good on making things elaborate.
I think the briefcase acts like a train like you said. Everyone hooks too it and everyone goes to the same place. As they said in the movies. The military used it first as a training program.
As for the different mind waves I see it as, Host advantage. They always go into someones dream, everyone goes into that persons dream, so that person would regulate the speed.
On question of the variations, maybe the drug that they inject slows or speeds up your mind to one speed that way they know the amount of time they have.
Just my input.
i concur with austin about the host being the one that sets the pace, and then the math is the same for everyone.
other than that...why can't you just enjoy the movie??? ;)
There are a few possibilities regarding the speed:
1. The speed that brains react are primarily based on the strength of the synapse connections built up over time. Since the dream is a new environment for all of them, no on e would have a stronger connection then someone else. and thus they would all be relatively equal.
2. As far as being able to work as a team. In the physical world a variety of abilities exist, yet I am able to be on the same team as someone much stronger, quicker, and more coordinated than I. Unless we are talking about the extremes of the population (those who can be injured in normal interactions, when just shaking someones hand can break a bone)we have learned to adapt to each other.
I presume that those who participate in the dreams have been screened and tested to insure they have the abilities to "keep up" with others thus the ability for teamwork. All do not have that capacity. When I tried out for the "dream team" I didn't make the first cut.
I'm with the others in assuming that the briefcase and it's wiring kept everyone connected.
if anyone is coming back to read comments again, i have just one more point to make on my second question:
If they have to drug themselves to be on the same speed in dream reality, then how do they do tests on the person they are hijacking and trying to get information from?
i did enjoy the movie. don't get me wrong. i just enjoy thinking and overanalyzing, too.
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