Disclaimer: If I owned Inception, I would be a bloody genius. A terrifically happy and wealthy bloody genius. But I am none of those things. So shouldn't you be pitying me rather than suing me? I think we all know the answer.

A/N: It's been such a long time since I posted that I actually forgot to do this! Forgive me, readers, forgive me. Nothing much to say in this chapter - it's meant to wet your whistle for the mind-bending fun to come. Who's talking in this chapter? Why, I guess I'm not entirely sure...

R&R, and if nothing else, please enjoy,

Thousand Faces

Reality is a highly overrated concept.

In the same way that 'right' and 'wrong' are oversimplified nominations for a much more complex procedure of an individual mentally processing events, reality actually depends on your point of view. The same goes for truth. And justice. Success. Failure. And love.

Perhaps love more than most. Who can define love? We can only define what it means for us, for the individual mind – to each person it is a different shape, with different edges, fault lines, and consistencies.

Reality is the same way. You and I both believe in 'reality'. But who's to say yours is the same as mine? Who's to say one is more real than the other?

Frankly, it all comes down to what you believe. Do you believe in reality, or justice, or failure, or love? And how deep does that belief go? How personally invested are you in that belief?

Only when that belief becomes your reality can it be shared with another. It has to be embraced at every level.

Which requires a bit of a risk because…well…what if you're wrong?

Of course, 'right' and 'wrong' are all in the mind, as already stated. That's what makes them so important. The mind determines the reality in which it exists. But each of us has to choose whether to subscribe to it or not. You don't have to believe it. As long as your prepared to face the long darkness of unreality alone.

Most people aren't. It's rather tiring and yes, that's speaking from personal experience. Most succumb. Or go insane. I've only been insane once, it wasn't fun.

What am I trying to tell you? I guess…I guess I'm trying to say that as overrated as reality is, as flimsy a word and unfathomable a concept…it's all that we got.

So we might as well have fun with it, yeah?