If that's the case, I'm not entirely sure why you wouldn't consent to the machine.
Assuming your dreams would be the same thing that you were pursuing back home, you didn't particularly care about the means you used to achieve the end, and you didn't particularly care about the natural consequences of achieving that end, whatever those consequences might be. What mattered was the end itself, and more importantly the effect it had on you personally — not whatever collateral damage onto others came along with it. You weren't out to ruin people's lives so much as you were seeking to enhance your own.
So if that's the case, I think the only things that might turn you off from the idea are either the thought that having it only happen in your head would somehow devalue the experience — that is, it'd be lacking the component that only the presence of other humans with goals and ideals could bring to it — or the thought that taking it might make you a hypocrite somehow.
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Assuming your dreams would be the same thing that you were pursuing back home, you didn't particularly care about the means you used to achieve the end, and you didn't particularly care about the natural consequences of achieving that end, whatever those consequences might be. What mattered was the end itself, and more importantly the effect it had on you personally — not whatever collateral damage onto others came along with it. You weren't out to ruin people's lives so much as you were seeking to enhance your own.
So if that's the case, I think the only things that might turn you off from the idea are either the thought that having it only happen in your head would somehow devalue the experience — that is, it'd be lacking the component that only the presence of other humans with goals and ideals could bring to it — or the thought that taking it might make you a hypocrite somehow.