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Projections – compare Madhupindika Sutta (categories of proliferated perception attack the person who started the process):
Dependent on eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises [similarly with the rest of the six senses]. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a requisite condition, there is feeling.
Starting with feeling, the notion of an "agent" — in this case, the feeler — acting on "objects," is introduced:
 What one feels, one perceives (labels in the mind). What one perceives, one thinks about. What one thinks about, one "papañcizes."
Through the process of papañca, the agent then becomes a victim of his/her own patterns of thinking:
 Based on what a person papañcizes, the perceptions & categories of papañca assail him/her with regard to past, present, & future forms cognizable via the eye [as with the remaining senses].
What are these perceptions & categories that assail the person who papañcizes? Sn 4.14 states that the root of the categories of papañca is the perception, "I am the thinker." From this self-reflexive thought — in which one conceives a "self," a thing corresponding to the concept of "I" — a number of categories can be derived: being/not-being, me/not-me, mine/not-mine, doer/done-to, signifier/signified. Once one's self becomes a thing under the rubric of these categories, it's impossible not to be assailed by the perceptions & categories derived from these basic distinctions. When there's the sense of identification with something that experiences, then based on the feelings arising from sensory contact, some feelings will seem appealing — worth getting for the self — and others will seem unappealing — worth pushing away. From this there grows desire, which comes into conflict with the desires of others who are also engaging in papañca. This is how inner objectifications breed external contention.  
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I agree with the analysis given by Stan's mother :mrgreen:

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Ariadne's double mirrors – showing infinite regress going in both directions (layers upon layers of consciousness and of deception, avijja):
"You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on."
Remembering how one came into a dream = sati (recollection) which brings us back to reality.

Cobb's effort to escape from Cobol agents and to get himself acquitted from the crime which he is accused of – compare Nanavira's analysis of Kafka's Trial which is almost identical:
http://nanavira.org/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=50

:spy:

Inception - Explaining the dream world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-a58Wt2tk

Inception - Ariadne Learns How To Build Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yshUmxuEjE
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Kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno... (MN 26)

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