Inception Theory List

Here's Some theories i found online. Definitely need to give this movie another go. Source

Theory 1 – The top (Dom’s current totem) is wobbling and will eventually stop. Dom has returned to reality.

Theory 2 – Dom received a kick from Saito in limbo, but it did not work and Dom has gone deeper into limbo by being killed within a dream under sedation. Dom remains in Limbo.

Theory 3 – The entire movie is simply Dom’s dream wrestling with his fatherhood and mortality, and he simply woke up on the plane after a regular business trip. Plain and simple.

Theory 4 – The entire movie is Dom’s dream and part of Dom and Mal’s research. Mal was right that they were not yet in reality and has been attempting to extract Dom through inception.

Theory 5 – The entire movie is in Dom’s dream, but the idea is the result of Inception on Dom by his father or some other corporation.

1. How did Dom’s kids know how to reach him at a hotel halfway across the world if their Grandma did not want them to speak to him?
2. Where is Grandma at the end of the movie?
3. The children have the same clothes on throughout the movie, including the ending.
4. When Dom wakes up on the plane, he is not hooked to any device.
5. No one on the plane speaks to him after he wakes up, except Miles who says “Welcome Back”.
6. Dom has a wedding band on in “reality” throughout the movie, but on during the “dream” sequences.
7. The totem is actually Mal’s, not Dom’s. What is Dom’s totem?
8. No one should know or touch someone else’s totem. However, multiple people know and touch Dom’s.
9. Why are the so many agents of the corporation in Mumbasa, wearing the same type of outfits that are worn by security projections in Fischers’ dream?
10. Mal continuously runs her finger across a knife but does not bleed.
11. Why did Dom not wait for the totem to stop spinning? Was it because his children turned around?
12. The children never age throughout the film. If Dom had time to start a business and speak with his children multiple times, send them gifts, and tell them he would come home eventually, why would they look the same at the end of the movie?
13. How can one call solve major immigration issues with one phone call?
14. Did Dom and Saito simply come out from under sedation on the plane?
15. Who was out there militarizing important people’s subconscious? Was extraction a growth industry? Who else knew how to execute the process?
16. I suspect the selected music for extraction has a meaning, but that is likely DVD Commentary material.
17. Is it safe to assume Grandma is Mal’s mom?
18. Where are the kicks coming out of limbo for Dom and Saito through the 5 different levels?
19. How did Dom get to the shores where Saito’s men found him?
20. What does Dom’s dad mean when he says “Come back to reality”?