These two parts are linked. My position that the “magic” of the dream world is capable of curing his narcolepsy, even though it’s not medically different from real narcolepsy, is corroborated by the VN itself because the dream world magic does in fact cure it. And as for the dream world not being able to physically affect reality, we don’t even really know that for sure. That’s an assumption we’ve made, and the exact nature of the dream world down to its finest details is unknown to us. You can’t really say “the magic can’t do that” when in the VN itself, the magic DID do that. That’s what I was talking about with my point being corroborated by the VN itself.
It wasn’t my intention for this to be a trap or for the argument to drag out like this. Your position seemed inconsistent with the facts to me, so I pointed it out, that’s all. If I had known you were arguing under the premise that narcolepsy works differently in LB! than in reality, I wouldn’t have. Even though I disagree with that premise, it is a consistent position now that I know that.
Again, for me it would be a problem with writing quality if the “It’s enough” ending continued and his narcolepsy was cured without a medical explanation. The “It’s not enough” has a supernatural explanation for it being cured, but the “It’s enough” ending eschews that, so I wouldn’t really be able to accept it if they didn’t offer a scientific/medical explanation of some sort, which they can’t really do because there isn’t one. There’s no natural explanation, and they’ve eschewed the supernatural explanation, so I don’t see how it could be cured at all in the “It’s enough” ending. That’s my gripe with that hypothetical.
And lastly, this is not true at all. If anything, I’ve actually moved more towards the “It’s enough” side of things since our original conversation about this a few months back. If I had to say, I’m probably a bit too hung up on the technical/scientific side of the discussion over what works best with the narrative, but I can’t really help that, being a scientifically-minded person.