o we live in reality, or is reality just a dream? In The Unavoidable Dream Problem, James T. M. Miller asks the question, can know if we are not dreaming much like Dominick Cobb did in Inception? Firstly, Miller explained why the use of a totem to confirm if you are in reality of a dream is flawed. Let’s use Cobb’s totem as an example, which is a metal, spinning top. If the top does turn forever, we know with all certainty that we are in fact in a dream because that is not possible in “reality.” However, if the top falls over, there is only a 50% chance that we know we are in reality. This is because we could dream that the top could fall over, so that does not prove that we are not in a dream. The same thing goes for somebody pinching themselves,
