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Kafkaesque Dreams

      Inception is an interesting movie, not because Christopher Nolan directed it but more so because its entire plot is based on the concept of supplanting a dream in a person’s mind without them, at the slightest, realisng it to be implanted. The synopsis when judged on the face value appears not only entertaining but also novel. And it is so, as long as it remains in the realm of fiction and cinema, but it becomes ugly and unfortunate when it turns into a reality and even worse if everyone has been implanted with the same dream.     As the child matures from his infancy to his adolescence the dreams start to manifest itself in his ambitions, lifestyle and his choices. He is under the constant illusion of being the original dreamer, when, in reality, the seeds of his dreams were sown already when he was an infant or a toddler by his parents and the immediate society, although subtly yet effectively. His mind was already implanted with the great ideas of becoming a lawyer or a scient