Silver, that's almost pure Gnosticism. It's a paradigm that also inspired The Matrix: "What if it's all an experiment or a joke and God isn't really a God after all." Properly looked into, Gnostic ideas can really shake you up. I know, I'm a Gnostic. There's a whole bunch of books in the Christian corpus that didn't make it into what we know as the Bible but were written at the same time and have very different interpretations of what it's all about (some of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Library are the most well known). They were politically suppressed by those who stood to gain from the spirtual enslavement, rather than liberation, of the masses. Typical church politics.