Inception

[Philosophy Now]

Heather Rivera dreams up a film review. Or does she?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/88/Inception

[Walker]

Heather Rivera dreams up a film review. Or does she?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/88/Inception

In the context of the film, ‘inception’ means an idea being planted in someone’s mind without their knowledge of this happening. Cobb explains that this is only possible if the subject is in a deep enough sleep. Then the person can truly believe it was their own thought, created by themselves while they were dreaming. Thus while in a dream-state things can be suggested to us by people who have invaded our dreams, which is the premise of the movie. If the dream-world in which the idea was suggested seems plausible to us, we may even remember the dream incident at a later point, believing it was our own thought.

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Sounds like an interesting movie.

In real life, a tertön is among other things a prophet who purposely implants a terma into the earth to be physically discovered when the time is right for the discovery, a time which naturally reveals to humanity's progress. The tertön can also be the discoverer within traditions. The terma can also be knowledge implanted into consciousness to be discovered when the time is right for the discovery, sometime in the future ... just as precious minerals and terma within the earth are discovered when humanity is ready for the discovery. Knowledge can be discovered within dreams rather than created within dreams, as with the benzene ring, or the structure of DNA.

I think more explanation of that is probably also in the public domain now, if you dig.