User blog comment:The Milkman/The Indoctrination Theory: History Repeats Itself?/@comment-2186773-20121113190510/@comment-4237253-20121113215113

You're confusing a plot device with a setting. The IT relies on the "it was all a dream" effect, which subverts previous events in the plot by telling the audience that they never truly occurred. The part in Dragon Age: Origins does not do this. In that instance, you are fully aware of where you are, and what you do does in fact happen, just in a different realm.