Inception makes us question the world we live in. When Saito offers an offer to perform Inception at a rival company, Cobb accepts in hopes of returning to his children. After performing the commencement, Cobb once again sees the faces of his children. But he comes to challenge their existence by spinning his totem. How do we understand if we are in a dream or in reality? Most people would answer this question based on how they feel, but as Arianna points out, “…I thought the dream space would be all about the visual, but it's more about sensation” (Tullmann 78 ). Since we really don't know how to determine our reality versus our dreams, this leads to a constant problem, epistemic angst. Tullmann examines epistemic anxiety and responses to it. Epistemic distress 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 know for sure that he had children. As the main reason why Cobb wants to return to the United States, his children are very important to him. Questioning the existence of his children would surely bring distress to Cobb. According to Descartes, epistemic anguish is described as "...someone who is suddenly thrown into a deep vortex which makes him roll over himself so that he can neither stay at the bottom nor swim up" (Tullmann 79) . The instability of our dreams also causes epistemic anguish. When Arianna asks her how she got to the bar, the whole dream explodes: vegetables fly to pieces, glass shatters, and buildings explode. Cobb and Mal managed to knock down the buildings behind them by simply pushing down sandcastles. Having to question reality with an unstable dream would definitely mean... middle of paper... distracting yourself from things regardless of the possibility that they aren't real. Similarly, at the end of Inception, Cobb becomes distracted by his children and walks away from the totem. This was Cobb's choice. She chooses to spend time with her children even though there is a lingering thought of perpetual anxiety. Cobb's response is different from that of the basement dreamers. Whenever it is in someone else's dream, it is certain that it is not a reality. Only when he returns to reality does he begin to doubt. He wants to live in a world where he is certain of its reality, unlike the basement dreamers. 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, even if he isn't sure. Similar to Hume, Cobb believes that epistemic issues do not matter because he believes he has been reunited with his children.