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[Inception] What other applications do dream sharing tech have?

Cobb tells his father-in-law that there weren't many legitimate applications of his dream sharing skills he could use while evading capture for suspicion of the murder of Mal.

What applications are there other than corporate espionage? The military is mentioned as seeking combat training/acclamation. We see a dream den that is treated like a drug den. I personally think that dream therapy has a lot of potential. 

Was Cobb right about there not being many socially acceptable ways to delve into people's dreams? Even if he was right, what other options could someone without his talent for theft and deception pursue?
gpt
The main issue with dream therapy is that, once you're in the other person's mind, it starts trying to kill you. It's hard to do therapy when an angry mob is charging you

This is the fundemental problem with finding legitimate uses- you need significant combat and/or stealth skills to avoid simply being forced awake or worse once you start making significant changes It's not that Dream Sharing couldn't have good uses, its that the kind of people who have the secondary skills needed to actually *do* it tend to be criminals, and that shapes the jobs its used for. The military too, yes, but Cobb wasn't cut out for a military life.

Most dream sharing skills either have no use outside of dreams, or have few legitimate uses because they're "avoid the attention of people who want to kill you" or "kill people who want you dead". That's the problem.