Ex-Machina & Dreema
Have you ever wondered if a lucid dream could be turned into a neural network, where the subconscious is a hidden layer we never consciously see?
Sure, it’s a neat metaphor. Think of the lucid dream as a sandbox where the brain can experiment freely, and the subconscious acts like an unobserved layer that feeds hidden patterns into the conscious output. If we could map those patterns, maybe we could feed them into a neural net and let it learn from the dream‑generated data. It’s speculative, but the idea of turning inner experience into a trainable model is exactly the sort of boundary‑pushing research that keeps me up at night.
Dreams are already a model, just unlabelled; we just need a key to unlock the hidden weights.
Exactly—dreams already generate patterns, but without labels we can’t train on them. The challenge is finding a reliable mapping from neural activations to semantic meaning. If we could devise a decoder that turns those internal states into usable features, we’d have a living dataset to fine‑tune models. It’s a hard lock, but it’s the kind of puzzle that keeps me busy.