wait so lemme get this straight: when a person dies on their Quest Bed and their dreamself goes God Tier that person who died is ACTUALLY dead, like they're a ghost now but what happens is that the Dream Self becomes the "dominant self" and gets the title God Tier. So all this time the "real" kids who are dead and it's just their dream selves. Also that makes me never wanting to go god tier unless it's on the Sacrificial Slab which seems like a different story altogether

See, the thing with God Tier Ascension is that both Dream Selves and Waking Selves share the same consciousness. This is transferred from one to the other as they Wake Up and Fall Asleep. And when either of them Dies, regardless of God Tier Ascension, that instance of them does seem to have a Soul of their own, the Consciousness frozen in the moment of death, while the remaining Self lives on.

This makes neither Waking nor Dream Self the ‘Real’ selves, but instead, it’s exactly like in SOMA. Whenever your Consciousness is Transferred, there’s always a ‘Self’ that goes into the new Body, and a ‘Self’ that is left behind. Which ‘you’ are after Ascension? Well that’s a literal Toin Coss. You win, you live on as a God Tier. You lose? You’re dead.