First I apologise for losing good recall of this dream as I waited a few days before posting this.
However I think I may have noted the salient point -and who know it might come back more fully later.
However my first question about it is whether in dreams ,as in hypnosis , there are certain limits to what we can imagine ourselves doing.
I mean that is what hypnotists say ,isn't it, that there are certain things that cannot be suggested to a subject as they conflict with their core values?
If I am wrong on this point then the second part of my post is irrelevant because in my dream I ,as the central character , and without nuance adopted actions that were in conflict with my lifelong beliefs/predjudices .
I don't propose to go into any detail but ,when I awoke my first feeling was that it was another person who had to have dreamed that -or else that my lifetime belief/predisposition were really not as genuine as I thought. ( they had been tested in the past and I assumed that they were part of my "bedrock")