The Matrix/Inception Styleeee

[Ulgavitch]

Although, to really "sell" such an idea with the appropriate levels of "wow" factor, it might require lots of strangely coloured, warped 'dream' terrain.... Such as clowns made of balloons and buildings made of chocolate....

You could just secretly drug everyone and have their minds expand? That way they'd see it without it even needing to be there? It'd save on the time to model/paint this terrain.

[psycho]

Having played games over two seperate tables i understand how they can and cannot work so that wouldnt be much of a problem....the problem would be having two models for each character...one in the dream state and one in the real world...as the sleeping people in the real world would be unable to do anything...might prove a problem...
Also in Inception do you notice that everyone is uber at their specific job...main guy is awesome fighter as is his 2IC...the changing guy is good at making others believe him...in INQ makin Characters like these would make the game waaaay to easy...they would be really too good at the fighting side of things

kerby

[Easy E]

And that is when a good GM would work wonders with just words.

But when the table has to act as a visual representation, saying "And the universe folds up over on itself" loses something when that sheet of plywood 6' x 4' is still as flat as it ever was.

Nah, just use hinges.  Of course, you could end up with som flattened models.