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Inception Drinking Game + Cocktail

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Drink deep enough and you won't know if you're dreaming either.

The Rules

  • Sip — The spinning top totem appears on screen in anyone's hand or spinning on a surface
  • Sip — A dream layer collapses — gravity shifts, walls fold, or architecture bends
  • Sip — Cobb mentions Mal by name or sees her appear in a memory or projection
  • Sip — Ariadne designs a new impossible maze or impossible architecture in the dream
  • Sip — Someone asks 'Whose subconscious are we going into?' or explains dream rules to a new character
  • Drink Twice — The 'kick' countdown is announced and the team prepares to synchronize across dream layers
  • Drink Twice — Robert Fischer shows visible emotion about his relationship with his dying father
  • Drink Twice — Yusuf's van falls off the bridge in slow motion — every dream layer feels the weightlessness
  • Shot — The train erupts out of the street in Cobb and Mal's shared dreamspace projection
  • Shot — Cobb finally reunites with his children's faces — we see them for the first time fully
  • Chug — The top spins, wobbles, and the cut to black hits before it falls — or does it? Screen goes dark.

Themed Cocktail

Cobb's Totem

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz aged rum
  • 0.75 oz Licor 43
  • 0.5 oz fresh lime juice
  • 0.5 oz passion fruit syrup
  • 0.25 oz coconut cream
  • 2 dashes orange bitters

Instructions:

  1. 1Combine rum, Licor 43, lime juice, passion fruit syrup, and bitters in a shaker with ice.
  2. 2Shake for 15 seconds and double-strain into a chilled coupe glass.
  3. 3Float coconut cream gently over the back of a spoon to create a white spinning-top layer on the surface.
  4. 4Garnish with an edible gold spinning top pick or a dehydrated lime wheel balanced on the rim.

Fun Facts

  • Released in 2010.(Source)
  • Directed by Christopher Nolan.(Source)
  • Cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.(Source)
  • Runtime: 148 minutes.(Source)

Disclaimer: Drink responsibly. This is intended for adults of legal drinking age. Never drink and drive. Always know your limits and drink in moderation.