Ty Cobb's real name was Tyrus Raymond Cobb.
The totem is a device that Cobb spins in order to tell whether he's in a dream or not. If it spins perpetually, he's in someone's dream. If it spins, but then falls and stops, it's reality.
Legacy's real name is Dominic Thomas.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Tell him to check his totem. If it falls, you are real.
Ty Cobb's birth name was Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Ty is short for Tyrus
Dominic Thomas
Dominic Thomas
Dominic Ierece
Dominic Ierece
Dominic
The movie's ending is deliberately ambiguous. After Cobb spins the totem, it continues to spin and wobbles slightly just as the screen cuts to black. The movie does not make clear whether or not the totem will continue to spin indefinitely or fall, leaving it to the viewer to decide whether he is still dreaming or in reality. For his part, Cobb does not wait to see whether or not the totem topples over, perhaps suggesting that, free of guilt, it makes no difference whether he is in the waking or dreaming world. -Added- Let's not forget that the spinning top was not originally Cobbs totem, it was his wifes.. He knew the balance of this totem meaning he could use it but could also be tricked by one person, his wife. I think Cobbs childrens faces were his totem, when he saw their faces he knew it was reality or didn't really care to detirmine the outcome of his believed totem. -Added- Cobb is never awake in the entire movie. Even the outer layer, with Aurthur, Eemes, Ariadne, Saito, etc. is all part of his infinite dream. He is always on a permanent loop from the beginning of his dream (unknown) to the end (washed up on shore, visits old-man Saito) UNTIL his subconscious finally gets rid of the old architect (the one that messed up the rug in the beginning of the movie) with the new one, Ariadne. Ariadne and Memory-Mal are both Cobb's representation of the real Mal (the one who "died" [but she actually freed herself from the dream cuz she was right]). When Cobb is explaining why he won't stay with Memory-Mal in Limbo, he says "I can't live with all your perfections (Ariadne) and your imperfections (Memory-Mal). So basically he split Mal into good and bad. Also, Fischer and Eemes are Cobb's representation of himself (not so much Eemes as Fischer, though). Cobb has guilt about his father. That is represented in his subconscious by Fischer, who's father was thought to be dissappointed with his son. Eemes said sentences along the lines of "I just want to go home" several times during the movie, which is all Cobb wants: to go home. We never saw Cobb's totem get spun, fall, and completely stop in one scene; there were always split scenes and cutaways. Ariadne's title is "Architect" and it is because Cobb finally got a new architect for his dream loop, he broke free and got into a new part of his everlasting limbo: his kids and home and stuff. If Cobb never got Ariadne, then the ending with Old-Man-Saito would've been the exact same as the first scene and then it would've looped back to the beginning: the middle age Saito in the hotel/palace. But instead of looping back, the Old-Man-Saito scene at the end was different because Cobb finally convinced him to go back.