WHO are YOU?

You are an Avatar in this virtual world. 

The Avatar lives inside a Quantum Computer.

Your Avatar is an Uploaded Intelligence(UI) or Digital Being, animated inside a Movie/Video game.

All the "Human Beings" in this virtual world are Digital Beings.

Whether it is a Non Player Characters (NPCs) or Uploaded  Intelligence (UIs) (including UIs operated by Real Players (RPs)).

The Ready Player One  and Jumanji movies, depicts both NPCs and Real Players inside a video game.

The Non-player characters are human beings that are AI generated characters, who are present to give the game a realistic experience.

They are characters that follow a fixed script in the game. They have no free will.

They are part of the storyline of the game and provide information, clues to the Real Players about the quest or challenges that is undertaken.

The Free Guy movie is all about a NPC's life. The Westworld show depicts them as "Hosts".

What do I mean by Digital Beings / Uploaded Intelligence(UIs) ?

These are basically coded characters in the game or Avatars in the game. 

These avatars exist ONLY inside the game.

They can be configured to a certain extent prior to logging in, by adding certain skills(similar to shown in Jumanji movie). But, mostly they are pre-configured with certain attributes.

Various movies, shows, books(for e.g Pantheon, Upload, Good Night World, Permutation City) talk about consciousness being uploaded into  the computer or cloud(a collection of computers that is part of a server farm).

These "scans" of the consciousness are called, Digital scan, brain scan, Electric being, Copies, Uploaded Intelligence. Either of these terms are used.  There is some sort of a consciousness copying technology that makes this possible, outside this matrix. It is said that, it's a copy of a Real Being's essence/consciousness. BUT, this is not a true copy of the consciousness. It is just the intelligence of the Real Player that is copied. Check this video here for more details .

Inside this matrix too, there is the Neural Link and at some point, in the future it is possible that the brain can be scanned and a snapshot taken at some point in time, then this can be saved on a computer disk, as a file!

So, UIs are basically files on disk, that are uploaded to a simulation and animated (similar to movies, games).

The REAL player is REAL YOU(or consciousness) who is, logged int the virtual world via some kind of a Virtual Reality setup that enables you to view the "Movie/Game".

The Real player could be lying in a pod(as shown in Electric State movie, Start Trek episodes) with this VR setup attached/plugged into them.

Whatever the setup, it essentially monitors the player's vital statistics and gives a fully immersive Virtual Reality experience.

It also includes a mechanism to capture all your senses, emotions, feelings

This is very well described in Ready Player Two book.

In a way the player is in a hypnotic stasis or artificially induced sleep and is NOT aware of the reality that they are logged in from. 

Usually, in a VR game, the player is aware to an extent that they are logged into the game. The movie Other Life shows this. 

BUT, in our case, we are "asleep" and have no idea that we are not of this world and that we are living a virtual life. We have forgotten that we are logged into this VR game. 

The "Memory Wipe" (prior to incarnation) has made this possible. It is because of the memory wipe, we believe we are all there is here and identify so strongly with our avatar.

We believe WE ARE the avatars! But we are not!

The player is actively steering it's life, unlike for NPCs. 

Which means the player has to become aware that we are in a simulation. 

So, it's not that the avatar wakes up here, it's the player wakes up and takes control of it's avatar.

The Peripheral TV Series, depicts this very nicely.