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Inception Connection to Pathcode?  Are they all dreaming? 

pandabearlikes:

Okay, hi everyone haha.  I’m back with another analysis.  T_T oh gosh, I need to stop, it’s ruining my sleep haha.  

Anyways, before you read this post, it’d probably make more sense if you have had watched Inception because I go into a lot of crazy dream stuff like totems, kicks, dreams within dreams, limbos, timing of dreams, and what nots that you will not understand unless you have some knowledge of the movie’s plot.  

So I’ve come to the conclusion that there may be several levels/layers in this dream that EXO is in.  The people’s dreams they are in include: Xiumin, Suho, and Chen (remaining members may also be dreamers).  (In Inception, we had seven members on the team: Arthur: point man, Cobb: extractor, Saito: overseer, Fisher: target, Ariadne: architect, Eames: forger, and Yusuf: chemist, but we were only in four (five if you count limbo) of their dreams:

Yusuf’s Dream is level one: on the street, he’s driving.  it’s raining and he’s in charge of playing the music to notify the team that time is running out and that the kick will happen soon.  He’s  also supposed to dive the van into the water in the end (EXO Parellel: Xiumin, with his music see chart for more info).  

Then they all go to sleep and we’re in Arthur’s dream (second level) in a hotel like place.  His job is to wait for Yusuf’s signal to do another kick by using the elevator to knock everyone awake.  We see a bunch of slow-motions in these sequences, much like the slow motions we see in a few of the teasers, like Chen’s, Sehun’s…etc.  (EXO Parallel: Suho, who has an alarm to time his kick, and eventually drowns himself to wake himself from the dream).

Then they fall asleep again, and we’re in Eames’ dream (level three), in a snowy mountain.  His job is to deliver the final kick to wake ALL the people up.  (EXO Parallel: Chen who see the eclipse closing).

We also have the remaining members Baekhyun, D.O., and YiXing who may be dreamers as well.  

Now to explain limbo.  Limbo is a place you go to if you accidentally die in one of the previous levels of dreams.  Saito dies in Inception and Cobb has to eventually go into limbo with him to bring him back or else he’d be asleep for over fifty years because dream time and real time is different.  (Like how sometimes you dream and think two hours have passed but in reality, only ten minutes did).  This may be why there has been so much emphasis with time.  At the end of Chen’s teaser, we hear someone’s heartbeat end…do you guys think, maybe someone died and went into limbo???  

Here’s the chart for the analysis to make things simpler to understand:

Other things to note, I couldn’t really find anything to connect Tao with the group so I believe Baekhyun may be a dreamer…since Tao did destroy the lights in his room?  And Tao’s ring is also black.  So maybe Baekhyun needs to appear to give him light…Another thing is I don’t know what role Kai has.  He seems as if he’s in the real world because as the members are slowly waking up now, we’re starting to hear background noises from his teaser leak into Chen’s (a.k.a. the sirens in the first six seconds of both teasers) as well as the references to Overdose in both [also note that Kai was the first person and also the last person we saw in Overdose…so maybe his teleportation power got him out of the maze while everyone fell asleep or something.  Idk.  But here are the connections to Overdose.  

Kyungsoo and his box. 

Kai recalls Kris being stuck in maze.

Chen’s Overdose book.

Also, remember YiXing was the one lying on the ground as Kyungsoo pours the sand?  Hmm…I feel like it connects to all of this…

Also, my theory with flight.  You can read it here: Analysis on Suho’s teaser, which may still happen considering that background sounds are all starting to morph into one another.  If you didn’t know, Inception begins on an airplane in flight.  All the members fall asleep on a plane to begin their mission.  Kai’s teaser ended with a crow flying.  Do you guys think he may be timing them in reality?  

Again, all theories are mine and if you don’t agree ;] perfectly fine.  I tried to figure out the time stuff but got so confused.  So I’m opened to discussions.  My brain is swelling oh dear.  Haha.  

I think Baekhyun will be next though.  Idk where.  I just feel like it wouldn’t be Kyungsoo and YiXing because they connect with Kai’s memories of the Overdose MV.