Star Trek Picard: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'The Impossible Box'
4. Phantasms
Narek literally walks Soji through her dream through the use of Zhal Makh, a Romulan meditation practice not previously seen in Trek before. Though the Romulans were always depicted as much less ritualistic than their Vulcan cousins, the Zhal Makh has shades of the Vulcan mind meld (which everyone knows about right?).
In Soji's dream, she sees her father's lab filled with orchids. Dahj mentioned their father's orchids in "Remembrance", hybrids Orchidaceae Dahj oncidium, yellow and pink.
More upsetting, Soji sees herself lying on a slab in her father's lab, dissembled and made of wood like a doll. This is foreshadowed by the artists mannequin that has been on Soji's desk aboard the Artifact in the past few episodes. Of course, androids were referred to as dolls or puppets several times in Star Trek: The Next Generation – Riker calls Data "Pinocchio" in "Encounter at Farpoint" and "The Measure of a Man".
This is also not the first body horror dream an android has experienced in Star Trek. In the TNG episode "Phantasms", Data dreams of Counselor Deanna Troi lying on a table in the form of a cake. Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting to be precise.