Depends on how advanced the BCI is, but if it is an advanced enough BCI should be able to activate any area of the brain and elicit any physiological response.
If combined with genetic engineering physiologically normally unsustainable states should be possible to safely experience such as intense continuous happiness or fervent indefinite mad love.
The danger is that not only could an advanced enough BCI elicit any visual sensation, auditory sensation, touch or smell, etc, but also any emotion or thought, it is conceivable it could also suppress memories or elicit memories.
Even beyond that cause desires or wants, and even the initiation of action whilst activating the areas that give the sensation of free will. Theoretically you could get into scripted experiences where you do not have access to your full memory or even any control, yet feel fully in control despite following the script. A living movie if you will where you may act with the grace and excellence required of the character you're experiencing, bound by fate but feeling free.
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