If we could wire up a machine that turns daydreams into real landscapes, the first step would be to quantify the dream patterns—every synaptic spike a data point. Then feed those into a VR engine that can render them in real time. The ethical quirk is that the “realness” of a dream is subjective; do we give users control over how immersive they want it? I’d end up overengineering a consent protocol that asks, “Do you want the lake to feel damp, or is that too much immersion for your skin?” It’s a maze of data streams and moral choices, and honestly, it feels like building a small talk bot that never learns to stop. Good luck staying awake for the debugging.