English Listening Practice | Learn Dream and Subconscious Expressions from 'Inception' Dialogues

Learning English is not just about mastering grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, it is about using them naturally in real-life situations. However, textbook sentences are often too formal and differ greatly from expressions used in daily life. To speak authentic, natural English, you need to engage with dialogues in real contexts. Here, we select commonly used English expressions for socializing, work, travel, and more, helping you move beyond "textbook English" and learn what native speakers really say. Below is the content from this session 'Learn English through Movies - Inception CD1 06'. Consistent practice will make your English closer to real life!

That's where I... I say we only use the fraction of our brains to potential melt. That's when we're awake. And we're asleep. Our mind can do almost anything. Such as... I'll imagine you're designing a building, right? You consciously create a jax bag. But sometimes it feels like it's almost creating itself if you know what I mean. Yeah. Like I'm discovering. A genuine inspiration, right? Now in a dream, our mind continuously does this. We create and perceive our world. Simultaneously, and our mind does this so well that we don't even know what's happening. That allows us to get the right and the right of that process. How? By taking over the creating part. Now this is where I need you. You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream. And they feel that they're subconscious.

How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that it's reality? Well, dreams... they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something is actually strange. Let me ask you a question. You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on. I guess, yeah. So how did we end up here? Well, we just came from the... Think about it, Ariadne. How did you get here? Why are you right now? Which week? You're actually in the middle of the workshop right now. I'm sorry, but this is your first lesson and you shared it with me. Stay calm. You're just dreaming about me, you're just... It's never just a dream, isn't it? A faithful a glass hurts like hell when you're in it. It feels real. It's why the military develops dream-sharing. It's a training program. The soldiers to shoot and stab and strangle each other and wake up.

How did architects become involved? Someone had to be there. They were all there. How did architects become involved? Someone had to design the dreams, right? Why don't you give us another five minutes? Five minutes? What? We were talking for at least an hour. The dream, your mind, functions more quickly. Therefore, time seems to feel more slow. Five minutes in the real world gives you an hour in the dream. Why don't you see what you can get up to in five minutes? You got the basic layout, book store, cafe, almost everything else is here too. Who are the people? Projections in my subconscious. Yours? Yes. Remember, you are the dreamer. You build this world. I am the subject. My mind populates. You can literally talk to my subconscious. That's one of the ways to extract information from a subject.

How else do you do it? By creating something secure like a bank vault or a jail, your mind automatically fills in with information that's trying to protect. Understand? Then you break in and still it. Well, I guess I thought that the dream space would be all about the visual, but it's more about the feel of it. My question is, what happens when you start messing with the physics of it? Something isn't it? What's this? In this video, I would like to thank your assistant, for your help.

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