Still common in Cristianity throughout its history, all the people who got annointed as Saints for varies works, basically became demi-gods.

Patron Saint of.... is basically the same as God of...

It's a compelling theory, but I think we should assume this is the base reality until we can prove otherwise.

You have to train yourself and get used to it. The more you change in the dream, the more you start to wake up. So when you feel yourself waking up, ease off and let the dream take over again.

>It would mean this reality is almost certainly simulated

I disagree. Just because we can similate a full reality, it doesn't mean this reality is simulated. Just because its possible, it doesn't mean it is.

I do think we face a lot of existential questions regardless though!

Does it have a consistent centre that converses individually, or is it a new instance every time you spin it up?

If the above is possible then there's gonna come a point where you can generate little AI's to inhabit your sandbox world/game. Even if the "game" pauses when you're not playing and you still have total control, tt this point its gonna get very messy ethically if its not already.

For example how wrong would it be to create a village of AI's and then send a tidal wave to destroy it, or even a monster for them to fight. If you know they are genuine individual AIs then it would be fairly evil to create anything other than a Utopia for them.

At least if they were simulated entities controlled by a global systems you could create something like the Warhammer world without unleashing total horror on so many genuine entities.

And thats not even to mention the ethics behind personally attacking them or whatever, which you wouldn't think twice about doing in a game right now.

Practically godhood, and if you throw in AI, its literally godhood