Your total time is total flight time. Simulator time is not flight time.
I do log time in a simulator when training, for record keeping purposes. I do not include it in any totals, however. To do so, if nothing else, would lend to the impression that one were attempting to inflate one's qualifications and experience. A simulator is not an aircraft, nor does it fly, however realistic it may be. Time spent in one, accordingly, has no place being reflected in any totals in your loogbook. That includes total time, or any reflections of category or class...or instrument or night.