Inception "time rules"...
by Paul David Lujan on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 2:04am
so i am about to put everyone at a full on nerd alert…
the movie “inception” has been on the brain, particularly the “time rules”, and how each level of the dream you get deeper into, it compounds the time away from reality by 10 (i think, don’t remember exactly, but my math is based on 10, damnit!).
so for those of you that have not seen the movie, this will probably make zero sense, but those of you that have seen it, i have worked up some numbers to find out how long him and his wife were actually asleep “in reality” while “building their world” in the dream for so long.
these could be wrong, but i feel "ok" with them..
*SPOILERS*
ok, so in the movie they explain that 5 minutes in reality is really like 1 hour in the dream world. however, if you were to go into different levels of dreams (dreams within dreams) then the amount of time spent in a dream is compounded by 10 for every level you go. so, that means that by time they are hangin out in "limbo", time is really stretching out forever in the dream, but not so much in reality. i wanted to figure out how long they were actually "asleep" in the real world in contrast to their 50 years in the dream.
ok, here we go -- numbers...
60 seconds = minute
60 minutes = hour
24 hours = day
365 days = year
m = minutes
h = hour
d = day
y = year -- duh!
5m = 1 hour -- 60m - 5m = 55m
55m x 24h (1 day) = 1320m
1320m / 60m (1 hour) = 22h
so, at 1 level into a dream...
1h (reality) = 22h (dream) = 0.91 days (dream)
level 2...
1h (reality) = 220h (dream) = 9.16 days (dream)
level 3...
1h (reality) = 2200h (dream) = 96.66 days (dream)
limbo...
1h (reality) = 22000h (dream) = 916.66 days (dream) / 365 (days in a year) = 2.51 yrs
so, if they were away for 50 years in the dream "building", that means...
50y / 2.51y = 19.9
24h x 365d = 8760h (in a year) x 50 = 438000h (in 50 years)
438000h (hours in 50 years) / 22000 (1h in limbo) = 19.9h
24h (in a day) / 19.9h (limbo time) = 0.82 days asleep in reality
so they were asleep for about 19.9 hours, or 0.82% of a day in reality, but 50 years in a dream, i think.
i sort of worked myself into a jam there in the end. sometimes i start to lose track of where im going with some of this stuff, but i like numbers, because eventually they all come together to make some sense..kind of.
the movie “inception” has been on the brain, particularly the “time rules”, and how each level of the dream you get deeper into, it compounds the time away from reality by 10 (i think, don’t remember exactly, but my math is based on 10, damnit!).
so for those of you that have not seen the movie, this will probably make zero sense, but those of you that have seen it, i have worked up some numbers to find out how long him and his wife were actually asleep “in reality” while “building their world” in the dream for so long.
these could be wrong, but i feel "ok" with them..
*SPOILERS*
ok, so in the movie they explain that 5 minutes in reality is really like 1 hour in the dream world. however, if you were to go into different levels of dreams (dreams within dreams) then the amount of time spent in a dream is compounded by 10 for every level you go. so, that means that by time they are hangin out in "limbo", time is really stretching out forever in the dream, but not so much in reality. i wanted to figure out how long they were actually "asleep" in the real world in contrast to their 50 years in the dream.
ok, here we go -- numbers...
60 seconds = minute
60 minutes = hour
24 hours = day
365 days = year
m = minutes
h = hour
d = day
y = year -- duh!
5m = 1 hour -- 60m - 5m = 55m
55m x 24h (1 day) = 1320m
1320m / 60m (1 hour) = 22h
so, at 1 level into a dream...
1h (reality) = 22h (dream) = 0.91 days (dream)
level 2...
1h (reality) = 220h (dream) = 9.16 days (dream)
level 3...
1h (reality) = 2200h (dream) = 96.66 days (dream)
limbo...
1h (reality) = 22000h (dream) = 916.66 days (dream) / 365 (days in a year) = 2.51 yrs
so, if they were away for 50 years in the dream "building", that means...
50y / 2.51y = 19.9
24h x 365d = 8760h (in a year) x 50 = 438000h (in 50 years)
438000h (hours in 50 years) / 22000 (1h in limbo) = 19.9h
24h (in a day) / 19.9h (limbo time) = 0.82 days asleep in reality
so they were asleep for about 19.9 hours, or 0.82% of a day in reality, but 50 years in a dream, i think.
i sort of worked myself into a jam there in the end. sometimes i start to lose track of where im going with some of this stuff, but i like numbers, because eventually they all come together to make some sense..kind of.
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