If folks are curious about some *real* research into dreams the subject, this is an awesome book. There is some real science that has been applied to the subject. I stumbled on it by accident trying to deal with issues with nightmares. Since I've done a lot of research into cognitive science and what likely influences a lot of the quirks.
IMHO when we do get to the phase when we are doing Matrix/Cyberpunk like things, Lucid Dreams are going to be the existing 'wiring' that that taps into.
For folks that are the TL;DR type, or just to get a taste, there have been a few good podcasts on this as well:
https://t.co/qU1eXfAmiF