Instead of relying on CGI and headsets, the metaverse could one day be rendered through our dreams and catalysed by machines — This is exactly the question posed by Joakim Vindenes, PhD candidate in virtual reality (VR) at the University of Bergen, in Norway. In an essay published in 2021, the researcher suggested that lucid dreams (that is, the ability to consciously control what happens in your dream) were better than VR…