what if I found out I was a simulation theme
We imagine what it would be like to suddenly discover that we are merely a simulated personality within some program in a computer, or the like.
9 total · 3 choice · 3 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Thirteenth Floor (1999) | choice | The story built up to Douglas Hall discovering that he was a simulated person who was living in a virtual reality version of 1999 Los Angeles. The 1937 bartender Jerry Ashton had an existential crisis upon realizing that he was a simulated person living inside a simulated reality. |
| movie: World on a Wire (1973) | choice | The manager of the Simulacron computer, Fred Stiller, uncovered that he himself was a simulated character inside a computer from an even higher level of reality. |
| tz2019e2x02 | choice | Michelle was confronted with the strange reality that she existed as someone's avatar in a vast multi-player video game of some sort. |
| blackmirror7x03 | major | Dorothy had much difficulty processing that she was a virtual recreation of the long-dead actress Dorothy Chambers when confronted about this reality by Brandy. |
| ds92x16 | major | it was revealed to the simulated people that they were in fact holograms |
| tng2x03 | major | James Moriarty :: Moriarty |
| blackmirror6x01 | minor | Joan and Salma were somewhat taken aback by the revelation that they were computer simulations. |
| tng1x12 | minor | Cyrus Redblock and Felix Leech upon exiting holodeck |
| tng1x15 | minor | Minuet came to understood what she was, and there was an introspective discussion. |