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After watching it for the second time (and loving it) I've come up with another theory (other than the whole movie being a dream)
 
So at the end in the airplane, after waking up from Saiko's limbo, you see Cobb looking around and looking at the crew. It's interesting because Cobb never speaks to any of them, and it's as if he doesn't know any of them (Cobb's facial expressions and overall body movement.) But the crew is looking at him as if they just did an inception on him. 
So my theory is that instead of doing an inception on Fisher, they did it on Cobb (as explained in other theory's), and that he wakes up in the plane dreaming everything past that point. This means that Fisher was part of the crew and not Cobb (being the Inception subject). Everything past Cobb waking up could be real. 
 
So why did they do an inception on him? Perhaps it's to make him accept that Mal is gone (either she's dead or they've broken up). And everything was lead by Cobb's father (which is at the airport and picks him up).
 In conclusion, everything up to Cobb waking up in the plane was an inception on him. Everything after was real.
 
If this has been discussed already, I appologize for making a new topic. So what do you guys think?
Personally, it's this or that the whole movie is a dream. However, the whole airplane scene does strike me as odd, especially after everything the crew has been through if it all was a dream.

If the whole thing was an inception on him, how did he get permission to enter the U.S. Saito only pulled some strings after he got what he wanted, if it was just an inception on Cobb, Saito would have no motivation to make the call to allow Cobb to enter the U.S.

I think that is an interesting take, but thematically it doesn't fit with the film.

Having just seen this last night for the first time, and not joining in on the other threads, this could have points if some of the stuff from the beginning is real.  And Cobb's father wanted Ariadne to try and place Inception on his son.  Remember he told his son that she was better than he was.  She seemed to be the only one who Cobb would open up to.  He allowed her to keep roaming around his dreams instead of just kicking her out.  Remember what Cobb told Siato that in order for him to truly know the in's and out's of someone they would need to know the deepest darkest secret that no one else knows.  Secrets that he told Ariadne about Mal and himself.

I think its reality, since, theirs the ring theory. Basically, he only wears his ring during dream sequences. The ring is prominantly displayed in the dream sequences, last scene he isnt wearing a ring. Also if you check casting, Nolan hired older child actors to play them, so I dunno...I think it is reality.