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Taking some of the part of it here

Breaking the Dragon let Tiber Septim conquer Tamriel. While Vivec may have murdered Nerevar before he became a god, in becoming a god, he and was then able to rewrite his own past, shaping it as he saw fit.

CHIM is the realisation that your entire world, everything you experience, does not really exist. It exists as the dream of a power, which, since it must be called something, is called God. Everything that exists is just part of the dream of God, including yourself. You are just a tiny fraction of the Godhead, that has managed to gain a modicum of self-awareness.

For most, the self-awareness doesn’t last. Their minds can’t support two co-existing statements of “I exist” and “I do not exist”, resulting in the total negation of identity known as “zero-summing”. 1 + -1 = 0. To “zero-sum” is to. It’s rather reminiscent of the bit inHitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy in which God, on having his existence proven to be impossible, immediately vanishes.

To successfully attain CHIM, one must take the next step: to hold the two conflicting statements simultaneously. To add one and minus-one, and come up with something other than zero. Instead of following the mental path of  its all a dream… I don’t exist”, you instead move to “it’s all a dream… I can control it.” Reality is mutable, and yours for the changing.