but whether the dream in question is 'real' or not is not a question of inductive fallacies, Kish, but of verisimilitude. it's only an inductive fallacy IF it's compared with a normative 'RL' experience of dreams. in
that context, if i had even a dozen consecutive dreams that bore a direct relation upon my woken life, i *still* wouldnt expect the 13th to have such a relation.
but this is a false comparison: the question of truth is
not 'how true to RL is the experience of the Irenicus dreams' but 'how true to the narrative'. and within the context of the narrative, as greyfain argued and i asserted, nothing happens that
isn't part of the narrative: so
if yr having a dream within BGII *and it's represented to you the player*
then its necessarily connected to the narrative. and given that the narrative driver of the BG series is 'the PC's relation to their taint' (or perhaps 'the PC's possession of the taint')
then any sequence - dream or not-dream - where yr presented with choices is going to bear upon the taint. so whether you tell the Solar in TOB 'i will claim my heritage' or Jaheira 'you should be my slave' or a dream-Irenicus 'i deserve power', yr - within the narrative - submitting to the taint. that might not bear upon yr reputation - cos no-one else sees it - or upon yr alignment - cos, err, the alignment system is bollocks - but it should bear upon a judgement of morality - which is what Virtue is concerned with.
as i said before: i choose to have my PC behave in ways that are neither virtuous, nor - frankly - good (i agree fully with you in that regard, Jester), but because a: the alignment system is so crap; and b: i'm careful not to install Virtue (or at least until i can hack Kit.ids to allow a sword angel within a BP install: but that's a discussion for a different forum
) my PC doesnt have to bear the consequences of my playing style. but if i had a morality-mod installed [in the game] and i asserted my will-to-power [in the game] in the way Jester described at the start of the thread, then i would expect [in the game] to bear the consequences of behaving so unVirtuously (assumng that's a real word!
)