Rebuild night-time dreams in the real world

This is not a full fledged essay like the last one, but more of a thought. The idea essentially originates from the putting together two different ideas:

1. If any system adheres to laws of physics, it can be brought to life (by Elon Musk)
2. All dreams are essentially interpolations of existing information in your head.

Putting together these two ideas, if you had a dream that was, let’s say if it were to be evaluated end-to-end to be fully bounded principles of physics (so no magic flying deers or portals to European streets from your house windows), then it essentially can be replicated.

Origin

A part of this idea first originated in my head when I read how you never see a new face in your dreams. Yes you do feel like you see a lot of strangers in your dreams, but it is neurologically impossible to completely reconstruct a new face in your dreams from scratch.

Using the idea

While this seems like a very naive, obvious or abstract idea but it did have me thinking really deeply to what extent innovation can be possible in the real world. Of course, you cannot evaluate a dream fully to be compliant with physics principles, let alone remember even 10% of it once you wake up unless it was a really good dream, this is definitely not something to tackle in the near future.

Instead of seeing this idea at it’s face value and thinking about when we can achieve dream measurements and physics laws, I think it is better suited as a catalyst serving the bigger idea of the true extent to which we as humans could go to invent systems that feel like magic now, but normal in the future.