Bizarre? I dont think so.
In the scene with the couple, when she talks about a long dream and when you wake up it has only passed like 10 to 15 minutes, that happens to me a lot and i have thought about it because often when i dream i get a sense of it being real, even when sometimes there are absurd things hapening, but yet i dont question them.
So before that and watching this movie i was convinced that the human being can distiguish reality from dreams simply because we are born with the faculties to discern them, but this of course was wrong of me to conclude simply because only when i'm awake (in most cases at least) am i aware that what i had previously been through was a dream. It's like you realised that you switched realities only because of that switch you go through when you wake up.
The language bit, i went to bed yesterday after watching the movie and posting here, it was very close to 5:00am and still i found myself fighting sleep by thinking about that scene.
I have thought a lot about language, i've been going around with it in my head many times and yeah, one of the things i thought about before even watching the film was that our language, even though it has a espicific definition in collected dictionaries, it's meaning really resonates in diferent ways with diferent people, we react diferently to a word being used in a specific phrase, our comprehension, (or percieved comprehension) depends a lot on it.
If i said i understand exactly what you mean here:
On one side of things, this dream I imagine my life to exist from will at some point end. I will wake up and this life will be over. Leaving room for a completely different life to come into existence. On the other side; Will I have to die in this dream, in order to wake up to reality?
I would be lying, i cant understand completely, you're talking about a level of perception and thought that i cant jump to, your entire language system is different from mine in different ways simply because our lives are different, we grew up differently, you see and percieve things differently than i do.
So yeah, when our language tries to reach into those so called abstract ideas using words that are used to describe concrete things, we falter in some way.
Now i'm not saying "Well i have absolutly no clue to what you're talking about" only that i've never had that exact thought experience that you have, so obviously my comprehention of you is limited to what our language conveys.
Sorry for the long post.
Added: BTW, what did you made up of the scene about Free Will?
SandRider, when are you going to post your thoughts about it (the film)?