'Inception' Ending Explained By Christopher Nolan! Director Tells Princeton Graduates To 'Chase Your Reality'

The “Inception” ending has finally been explained by Christopher Nolan. Speaking at a commencement exercise at Princeton University, the director shed light on the highly debated conclusion, which showed a spinning top wobbling before cutting to black.

As reported by Independent, Christopher Nolan explained the ending of Inception. The director, however, did not give a simple "yes" or "no" answer to the disappointment of fans. Instead, Nolan asserted the importance of chasing reality rather than one's dreams.

"In the great tradition of these speeches, generally someone says something along the lines of 'Chase your dreams,' but I don't want to tell you that because I don't believe that. I want you to chase your reality," he said.

"I feel that over time, we started to view reality as the poor cousin to our dreams, in a sense. I want to make the case to you that our dreams, our virtual realities, these abstractions that we enjoy and surround ourselves with - they are subsets of reality."

Christopher Nolan then made the connection between the importance of reality and the ending of "Inception."

"The way the end of that film worked, Leonardo DiCaprio's character Cobb - he was off with his kids, he was in his own subjective reality. He didn't really care anymore, and that makes a statement: perhaps, all levels of reality are valid. The camera moves over the spinning top just before it appears to be wobbling, it was cut to black."

"I skip out of the back of the theater before people catch me, and there's a very, very strong reaction from the audience: usually a bit of a groan. The point is, objectively, it matters to the audience in absolute terms: even though when I'm watching, it's fiction, a sort of virtual reality. But the question of whether that's a dream or whether it's real is the question I've been asked most about any of the films I've made. It matters to people because that's the point about reality. Reality matters," Christopher Nolan said.