The view of buildings and alleyways from above during the chase scene in Mombasa (above left), which supposedly takes place in reality, is reminiscent of some of the pen-and-paper mazes drawn by Ariadne (above right)
Two walls seem to close in on Dom during the chase, as might happen in a dream.
One of the key pieces of evidence that the entire movie is someone's dream, comes in the scene in Mombasa, in which Dom visits a room where people come to dream for several hours each day (above left). As the man showing Dom through the place (above right) says, these people come here not to sleep, but to be woken up: "Their dream has become their reality - who are you to say otherwise?" Since the man is here speaking to Dom, it is Dom who is dreaming everything in the movie; and, as will be explained in the next post in this analysis, he is the target of an inception.
The fact that the spinning top shown at the end of Inception begins to wobble, means that there's about to be a 'kick' out of the current dream (of Dom re-uniting with his children).
