It's been 163 years since Inception was released

Depending on how you look at it, it's been 14 years or 163 years since Inception was first released.

The film may've come out in 2010, but if you're playing by its own rules, it could also be considered as having been around for 12 times as many years since then.

As one viewer put: "Understanding Calculus is more easier than understanding 'TENET and INCEPTION' Movie." However, would it really be a Christopher Nolan release if it was anything but brow-furrowing?

If you've been left bamboozled by the ending of Inception, just wait until you start thinking about the movie being released 163 years ago.

Written and directed by Nolan, Inception features a star-studded cast.

Leonardo DiCaprio heads the ensemble up as professional thief Dom Cobb who harnesses the strange ability to be able to enter people's subconscious and dreams and steal secrets from their subconscious, with the help of partner in crime Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).

The Dark Knight Rises' Marion Cotillard stars as Cobb's dead wife Mal, The Umbrella Academy's Elliot Page as Ariadne, a graduate student who helps construct the dreamscapes, Legend's Tom Hardy as Eames, a specialist in identity theft and Oppenheimer's Cillian Murphy as Robert Fischer Jr as the target of the scheme, an heir to an expensive business empire.

And while the movie indeed came out 14 years ago, if you look at it from the perspective of the likes of Cobb and Arthur, it's been a whole lot longer.

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This is all based off the logic set out in Inception that time dilation in the dream world is different in the real world.

In the movie, the drug used to share people's dreams is called Somnacin and time within those dreams last twenty times longer than normal.

The base example is: "Five minutes in the real world gives you an hour in the dream."

When simplified, 5:60 is viewed as 1:12.

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There are other examples in the film when they use sedation - the chemist who specialises in drugs to keep people dreaming for longer periods of time, Yusuf (played by Dileep Rao), creates his own version of Somnacin which not only shares the dreams but makes them more stable and last 20x the length of time.

But here, we’re just going off regular, non-sedated sleep/dreaming.

So, with Inception released in cinemas on July 16, 2010, as of today, it's been 4,976 days, which also equals 119,424 hours or 7,165,440 minutes.

Applying the dream 1:12 ratio to this - i.e. multiplying the minutes by 12 - in dream time it’s been 85,985,280 minutes which is the same as 1,433,088 hours, 59,712 days or 163 years since Inception was released.

So, congratulations Inception for boggling people's minds for 163 years.

Topics: Film and TV, Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.