Yes, that’s right. But it simulates a world, a complex ecosystem and a universe - similar to your universe in your dream. 
Instead of animals, trees, etc. your simulation has to deal with quarks, molecules and such things. So I would think that an implementation of your idea would be possible.
That was no dream! That´s how you created the universe oh almighty one! 
I can write a short novel on how a software developer created the very same world he was in by implementing a simulation and writing a wrong recursion exit guard.
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The good old football match dream 
today, in the variant where I end up failing the easiest tasks (like 99% of the time - in dreams and real life too).
I was playing football with friends, and everyone was wearing white kits, so it was very difficult to understand what was going on. So I suggest we should change kits, then everyone goes to the lockers and puts on an Italy kit and everyone comes back dressed in blue. For some reason, now it’s clearer, and the match goes on. I remember that my wife could shoot the best free kicks ever, stuff that Beckham move aside (literal translation of an Italian slang (“roba che X spostati”) that means “X, go away please, we have something better now”).
But my wife’s free kick goals aren’t enough and it’s a draw, and it’s penalty shootout time. Even if I now notice that the opponent team is the actual Italian national football team, everyone keeps shooting the weakest balls at me (well, given the history of Italy’s penalty shootouts I shouldn’t be surprised). But I still manage to miss all of them, as usual. Fortunately my team scores too, so we get to the fifth and last penalty. My opponent, which I can’t recognize and is now wearing orange instead of blue, runs towards the ball. For some reason I expect a Panenka penalty (Italians might know it as the cucchiaio, the spoon penalty) so I don’t jump in advance. It is a Panenka indeed, but it’s aimed to the left. I should just move and extend my arms to intercept the lob, but I can’t. I just fall to my left like a piece of wood and out of sheer luck the ball hits my chest and I saved the penalty.
It’s my wife’s turn to shoot and we’re all happy because she showed us her kicking skills. Gianluigi Buffon might also be one of the best goalkeepers ever, but he sucks at saving penalties, so we can win. My wife runs, shoots, it’s perfectly angled, Buffon is standing still, the ball is going to enter the goal… when it hits the second post. There was another set of goal posts inside the goal. I ask the referee whether it is legal, he just answer “sorry, it’s a post” and we have to go to sudden death shootout.
And it’s my turn to shoot (evidently Italy scored their penalty without me remembering it).
And I can’t position the ball, because there’s no mark in the grass. And the field is full of waves and dunes. I then find a small dune on which I can put the ball (reminiscent of the old days of playing football on the beach), so I do, and the ball is actually an apple. I watch the apple, thinking “how the hell am I supposed to kick an irregular apple straight?”, but I also think “don’t worry Guga, you played football with all sorts of objects, just hit it in the middle, don’t aim too high, Buffon will surely dive in the wrong direction as usual and we’re fine”.
I run.
Don’t shoot too high. Don’t shoot too high. Don’t shoot too high.
I kick the apple. It goes like 100 meters to the left, rolling into a bush. We lost.
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The unravelling of that scenario is great 
it’s so interesting how dreams put obstacles in the way of what would otherwise be straightforward situations, and that it doesn’t matter how obscure those obstacles are (the extra posts and the apple - classic!)
I wonder if there’s a reason our brains stop us from getting to a (satisfying) conclusion in dreams.
I sometimes experience this kind of obstacle-planting when I’m in a state of half-asleep, too. I’m just about awake and an interesting scenario pops into my head, so I try to push it where I want it to go (kind of like a fantasy, I guess), but then my brain takes it in a different direction. It usually takes a few minutes to realise that, at which point I try and steer it back. But if I’m really sleepy it goes back off on a tangent again. Does anyone else have that?
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Which model / version?
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It’s a recurring element in dreams, but I don’t know if it has to do with one’s personality. While I’m not properly an underachiever and I’m satisfied with how things go, I also think that I never actually accomplished my goals 100%, and I never feel as if I made it, as if I’ve arrived. Probably that reflects in my dreams.
It looked like a Red Delicious. Which, in my opinion, is a name that’s only half true.
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It was a very thrilling story. So another explanation could be that you would like to have a more thrilling life or that you just like thrilling stories?
btw: Thanks for sharing your dreams!
Well I’m wondering if this lack of conclusion or satisfaction in dreams can be caused by two different things:
- The dreamer feeling like they’re not achieving something (the usual interpretation)
- The dreamer’s brain ‘diverting’ the conclusion for another reason (perhaps to stop you from waking up?)
I’m considering the second theory because of my half-sleep dreams as mentioned above - in those I’m not worrying about anything but my brain is fighting my attempts to conclude the dream.
Why not both at the same time? In our dreams we try to order and “process” the stuff we experienced in the real life and find solutions for problems. So for me it’s natural that the brain don’t wanted to be interrupted with that.
(And a recurring dream is a sign that you haven’t come to terms with your/something in your past.)
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Crumbling teeth today 
I remember I had a second set of teeth under my tongue, and I was thinking “maybe that’s why my teeth are always falling apart, these are actually my baby teeth and my permanent teeth erupted in the wrong position”.
I also had to recover all pages from Biff Tannen’s sports almanac for some reason, but the plot was abandoned as soon as I began spitting teeth.
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Sounds like the anxiety dream took over the fun(?) one 
At least you had a second set. As far as I remember from other narrations this is very uncommon. So you had a good solution and it wasn’t that fatal?
From my experience teeth dreams vary greatly. I’ve heard things like this before. I don’t think it’s necessarily a ‘good solution’ though - to me it’s just there to represent more unfamiliarity and confusion.
Yes, but it’s soothing: You don’t lose all of your teeth. And thus it’s a good solution.
I wouldn’t find a set of teeth under my tongue soothing 
I guess it depends on the individual, how @Guga felt in this case.
I would find it soothing. It’s similar to sharks: You don’t need false teeth if new ones are growing automatically.
Of course. They could be shocking too.
I don’t have a problem with new teeth coming through, but under your tongue?
But they have to grow somewhere…?
Well, better under than on it. 
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