To implant a thought in a another person's mind with the aim of having that person commit a predetermined action or behavior.
Inception is similar to the Jedi mind-trick;however, it is subtler and is usually done in several steps.
The target of the inception, as with th Jedi mind-trick, is usually not as smart as the inceptor.
I had to inception Mary to get her to breakup with me. I began the conversation by telling her that she wanted to break up with me...But three weeks before that I asked her why she didn't seem like herself.
(in-ˈsep-shən)--adj. anything having to do with the act of altering ones mind-set or thoughts; The process of entering another persons "dream-scape" with the intentions of changing their ideals about something or helping them to remember something.
Before the inception process, the client had an intent to kill the man. Now he only wants to befriend him because he realized it was a misunderstanding.
1. original meaning: source, origin, beginning
2. (following the 2010 movie): an infinite loop; a thing that contains itself; a repetition of the same thing, something with multiple layers; infinite regress, a vicious circle; a dream within a dream.
(referring to the concept of dreams inside other dreams, both up and down, and the famous line "we need to go deeper" from the movie.)
Essentially the same as the word "recursion", a word that a lot fewer young people know.
"Look, there's a Matryoshka doll inside that other doll! Dollception!" (doll+ inception)