Wise and Discerning Heart

1 Kings 3:12
I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.

God came to Solomon in a dream. This is emphasized at the beginning of the episode, and again at the end. Why a dream? Because it was a dream did not mean it wasn't real. And how did God look in the dream? Or was it mainly his voice? It was a very verbal dream, with specific words quoted. There are a fair number of dreams in the Bible, and most were very visual. I suppose a dream wouldn't be mentioned in the Bible if it didn't communicate something very real.
With this verse, it's back to God. He liked Solomon's answer, and He promised to give him a wise and discerning heart, plus everything else that a lesser human would have asked for. And He did. Unlike the God-seeking warrior-shepherd-king his father was, Solomon was an opulent, bigger-than-life, dazzling figure of a king, with too much of everything.
Yet he had this wise and discerning heart, that God promised would never be equaled. I read somewhere, I wish I could remember exactly how it was put, that much scientific knowledge must have originated with Solomon, because God gave it to him.
God, I know you didn't offer it to me, but could you please give me a discerning heart, to know right from wrong?