[Arthur's dream isn't a dream, precisely. Finding him is always a challenge, because Arthur is a ghost in the machine: when he doesn't want to be found, he won't be - that's just how it is. So this dream is Arthur's in that it's got Arthur's signature all over it: soft, deep yellow lighting, pinpoint precise architechture, the interior design that leans towards Post-War British painters and otherwise clean, precise lines.
But every once in a while the veneer cracks, the lights brighten to white and dim, the walls turn grey and dirty. It's the locked room behind Arthur's dreams, where he hides his secrets. Ariadne found Cobb's, thinking he built a prison for Mal, but what person who extracts doesn't have a space like this, built out of secrets and hidden things, full of things that they know better than to allow out and into the world?
Inception Crew | warning for violence and possibly child abuse
But every once in a while the veneer cracks, the lights brighten to white and dim, the walls turn grey and dirty. It's the locked room behind Arthur's dreams, where he hides his secrets. Ariadne found Cobb's, thinking he built a prison for Mal, but what person who extracts doesn't have a space like this, built out of secrets and hidden things, full of things that they know better than to allow out and into the world?
That is Arthur's dreams.
He's here somewhere.]