Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Is this a dream?



A while back i got this app called Inception for my iphone. I have to admit that it took a while before i understood how it works. The app basically augments the music (by Hans Zimmer) from the film. It captures the sound from your surrounding distorting and combining it to create a dream world. Just like the film the app idea is genius. It has different dreams that you can enter: the still dream where you have to sit still for a while to unlock it or the active dream where its enough that you shake your iphone. The full moon dream, which you can only activate ones a month, as it actually checks if it is full moon where you are. If you then enter too many dreams you end up in limbo. The app is brilliant as it uses GPS, microphone and positioning on the iphone. Saying that: the most confusing dream is the Africa dream. Do you have to be in Africa in order to unlock it? People have cracked this dream on a jail broken phone, but i will not jailbreak my phone just to listen to some sounds. I am also not traveling to Africa just to unlock the dream (unless it would be a real dream coming true to go to Africa). Then again maybe i just do not get it, how to unlock it. I think this app is cool for soothing and relaxing sounds. I would want to listen to it just before sleep but then i am afraid I will never wake up and as i have lost my unique token i would not know the difference between what is real or fiction. In a way this app does not make much sense but then again does everything have to have a meaning?