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Over Christmas a friend of mine Lena Bheeroo (analogueworld) recommended the Inception app as she thought I may like it. She was bloody right. The app has been made to tie in very well with the release of the Inception movie but unlike the usual movie apps this one uses some pretty impressive technology to facilitate some equally impressive concepts based on dreaming.

For example its probably safe to say that a lot if not all of the content of a persons dreams are some kind reflection of what has happened to them in the real world. The inception app has taken this idea and ran with it. In the app you can activate ‘dream states’ which takes tracks from the movies soundtrack and uses sounds, movement and even GPS to influence and distort the tracks. So in effect your actions, movements and sounds in real life influence the music you are listening too through your headphones.

I instantly loved this app and I’m so glad that a movie like Inception has given somone a reason to make something like this or maybe more importantly – given me a reason to use it. When you activate different dream states the app also takes a GPS snapshot from google maps and places it into a mosaic of your other dream GPS shots allowing you to build a kind of dream tapestry. On it’s own I think this is a wonderful idea but it also ties in beautifully with the dream-map building concept in the movie.

As I was home in Wales for Christmas I climbed to the top of Tan-y-Gopa hill, sat in the sun and switched the app on whilst reading Sven Berlin. It was a realy lovely moment were all the sounds of the forest around me were incorperated in an abient soundtrack whilst reading the end a beautiful book. I also did the same whilst stood on top of the highest tower in Gwrych Castle.

Here’s an intersting article about the app www.wired.co.uk and heres where to buy it: itunes.