Inception makes us question the world in which we live. When Saito extends an offer to play Inception at a rival company, Cobb accepts it in hopes of returning to his children. After making the creation, Cobb sees the faces of his children again. But he comes to challenge their existence by turning his totem. How do we know if we are in a dream or in reality? Most people would answer this question with how they feel, but as Ariane points out: “…I thought the dream space would be all about the visual, but it's more about the feeling” (Tullmann 78). Since we really don't know how to determine our reality from our dreams, this leads to a constant problem, epistemic anxiety. Tullmann examines epistemic anxiety and the responses to it. Epistemic anxiety is the feeling of anxiety caused by the uncertainty of anything. To see how we would respond to epistemic anxiety, we need to know how anxiety is formed. The skeptical argument concluded that Cobb may not have known for certain that he had children. Being the main reason why Cobb wants to return to the United States, his children are very important to him. Questioning his children's existence would surely cause Cobb anxiety. According to Descartes, epistemic anxiety is described as “…someone who is suddenly plunged into a deep whirlpool that tips him over so that he can no longer stand or swim upward” (Tullmann 79). The instability of our dreams also causes epistemic anxiety. When Ariane wonders how she got to the café, the whole dream explodes: vegetables fly away, glasses break and buildings explode. Cobb and Mal were able to demolish buildings behind them by simply knocking down sandcastles. Having to question reality with an unstable dream would definitely... middle of paper ... distract from things, regardless of the possibility that they might not be real. Similarly, at the end of Inception, Cobb is distracted from his children and moves away from the totem. It was Cobb's choice. He chose to spend time with his children even though a nagging thought of perpetual anxiety persisted. Cobb's response is different from that of the basement dreamers. Every time he finds himself in someone else's dream, he is certain that it is not reality. It's only when he comes back to reality that he begins to doubt. He wants to live in a world where he is certain of its reality, unlike the dreamers in the basement. Cobb chooses to escape limbo and knows the limits of his dreams. He also chooses to spend time with his children, in what appears to be reality, although he is not sure. Similar to Hume, Cobb believes that epistemic questions do not matter because he believes he has found his children..