I don't know if it came from a dream or what, but I've had this scene in my mind where you're looking at the screen on a machine, and in the reflection of that screen you can see doctors milling around a subject on a table. In unison they all turn their heads to the screen and you see words and shit flicker on it, faster and faster until it's evident that a consciousness is booting up in the machine. A few seconds later you hear a voice coming from the machine like someone waking up from being knocked out. It's the person on the table and the docs are talking to him. The guy slowly gets his bearings and starts celebrating that it worked and he's saying how amazing it is and he feels like his mind is infinite.

Then as the scene starts to go dark you hear a meek voice from the table rise over the din and say 'hey Doc, i don't think it worked'.