i want more stories about characters who know that they're fictional, but without like, medium awareness

i want stuff like scientists in a video game realizing that their universe can only store information as accurate as a floating point number

this is kiiiiinda similar to the idea i had for a story a long time ago that i'll never write about a universe of nested stories where it's possible to travel up or down the tree, but eventually they go up so far that they find an impenetrable barrier and come to the horrifying realization that their understanding has changed from "all stories are real" to "none of them are, not even mine"

@Rosemary exactly

relative to each other, all stories in this world are 100% real

but they've discovered evidence of a world that's so much more real than theirs that it doesn't make sense to call themselves real anymore

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