I've watched Inception a few times now and it and it's just fascinating every time.
But this last time I watched it, I'd been reading Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy", and this part of the movie suddenly stuck out. Where it explained that in shared dreaming, when the dreamer starts to make too many changes in the environment, the projections notice the strangeness of the dream and start looking for the dreamer to kill him/her, because they don't like being part of someone else's dream.
In comparing this with Nietzsche's "Apollian Dreamer" and "the will to power", it seemed this is what happens in revolutions. Someone takes power and exerts their dream on the rest of the population. When the people notice the strangeness of the dream, they don't want to be a part of it, and they go after the dreamer.
That's a pretty interesting perspective.
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