"There's a machine involved," He explained, "It's a PASIV device, it delivers a drug that allows multiple people to share in a single dream." He would have been lying if he said he wasn't enjoying just how interested Dieter was, having his attention was exactly the sort of thing Eames could let himself get carried away with.
He laughed softly, "I think those kinds of dreams are the sort you have on your own, but when we go into a dream we take an architect with us, who builds the dream world, so it's always a setting we choose." He grinned leaning just a little more toward Dieter as they talked. "There's always a touch of the surreal in the dream no matter how banal the setting."
"So we build the dream, the dreamer is pulled in and populates the dream with their subconscious, and from there's it's just a matter of getting what you need before their subconscious catches on that there is something amiss." Eames had stopped bothering to keep track of the number of times he'd been killed in dreams it was far more than he cared for, but it was the nature of the business.