The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

Many of my dreams are lucid in that I realize I'm dreaming but can't exert much control over events. I have two levels of consciousness: as the character in the dream and as the narrator who usually says "this is really far-fetched" or "thank goodness this is only a dream!"

The last dream I remember was about returning a market umbrella to a store in a shopping mall. I parked my car upstairs in the garage. The umbrella was big and had a heavy granite base. I left both in the car while checking if the store would even accept my return. The lady said, "Yes but you better hurry. We close at 6:15." I looked at my watch: 5:55. Only 20 minutes and my plan had been to make two more trips, one for the umbrella and another for the base. Perhaps I could do it in one trip? The parking garage was under construction and I soon found myself climbing up girders to get back to the car. It wasn't as easy as it looks in Assassin's Creed! That's when I woke up.

I think you've been throwing bombs too much. Doesn't that look like a target sign?--> And good luck with your dreams. Some of the most common for me are dreams of being late for work, I hate those.

hahaha, nah it wasnt to do with bombs I just had to stare down otherwise I couldnt land properly, it would be too scary.

I usually get chased in my dreams though, sometimes by wolves. I remember once talking about weed with friends in a dream and it turned out there had been some guy in an office writing down all the dialogue in the dream, and the cops were snooping through it. I had to distract them and then go on the computer and delete it. It was weird because the guy was no where near us and was recording conversations I had ages ago in the dream...

most of my dreams are really freaky. they make no sense even in the context of the dream.
i think i got a few written down here and there, see what i can pull up

I know a thing or two about lucid dreaming, so if you need any help, you can ask.

What everyone should know at the very least are reality checks. These are actions you perform that will have a different outcome in the dreamworld than in the real world. If you've seen Inception, it's the real-world version of totems (which can be used, but are unreliable). The best I've come across is the nose-pinch reality check. Here's how it works:
1) Pinch your nose shut.
2) Deeply inhale through your nose.
If you're in a dream, you'll be able to breath through your nose, since your nose is open in reality and breathing patterns between dreams and reality are synchronized. If you're in the real world, well, obviously you wouldn't be able to breathe through your nose. Be sure to do it twice, with full attention to really convince yourself. The feeling is quite peculiar in a dream.

You can now perform reality checks whenever a common dream thing pops up. Aurel's being late for work, for example. Everytime he thinks: "Crap, I'm late for work," he could perform a reality check and confirm whether he's dreaming or not. If he's dreaming, he knows it and the dream will be lucid, after which he can do anything he want.s

Yeah I just got sick of doing reality checks when they just didnt work. I would check mirrors and ask if him dreaming, I would retrace my day and ask how I got here ( I did that while dreaming last night and realised I couldnt do it, then I was lucid) and sometimes I just check the time on my phone twice and see if its the same.

However it can get mentally exhausting doing it all the time.

Yeah, I don't do it all the time. Just when I encounter a dreamsign.

Has anyone undergone any training to do lucid dreaming? An old friend of our was training himself to do it and having a really good rate of success with it.

I can't remember the last time I had a dream.

... that's probably a bad sign.

I used to be a regular trainee. Now, not so much. More casual type stuff, journalling a dream when I feel like it, the occasional lucid.

But, yeah, lucid dream training, done properly is highly effective. I think it's because you have to be motivated (it's part of the training ) and it's unexplored territory for most people, so that facilitates fast gains.

everytime i have a dream it has something to do with me or the end of the world ....why...

Last night was one for the ages, if only had I done a reality check...

I was back in New York and I went to another play. I was sitting in balcony seats and it was a play about Skyrim or something (I honestly don't remember what). What I do remember is that the three people doing music for the play were Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Jeremy Soule (the composer for Skyrim) and all of them were integrated into the play somehow. Skrillex was wearing some really cool set of armour and was playing really soft music (not dubstep, thank god). Deadmau5 was wearing mage robes and a mau5head. Jeremy Soule was wearing a suit. What was really cool was that they were all characters in the play and at least one of them would always be offstage playing music. Very well done. I also clearly remember my girlfriend being in the ensemble for some reason. We looked at each other at the same time, smiled, and then I woke up.

Would have really liked to have controlled what was going on, it could have potentially been the greatest play ever...

I had a similar feeling this morning, had one of my most epic dreams ever, and I tried to do a reality check and it still failed!

Basically I started off on a bus to nowhere, with my entire high school on it, it was like a reunion. I caught up with loads of friends I dont see anymore, and some told me why they did things at school, it was like I had a huge revelation about them. Then a prison guard stepped on the bus with a shotgun telling us all to get down, the bus was under siege by terrorists or something. My alarm woke me up at this point...

So I lay in bed and I thought maybe I could try lucid dream again. I closed my eyes and before I knew it I was like an hour away from my house standing in some suburb I used to live in. I wasn't totally sure I was dreaming, it felt so real it felt impossible that this could be a dream. So i asked myself how I got here, but I realised it was possible I slept walked here while I was having my first dream. I tried doing other reality checks, so I was kinda being a little prudent in assuming it was real, but I had a feeling it might be a dream so I went along with it.

I tried to go back to my home in my dream, but the layout of the city was different. I assumed I just got lost, so I went to climb this mountain ( NZ has mountains everywhere btw so it wasnt weird) so I could get a good view of where I was. When I got to the top it was so strange, it was like a huge crator going all the way back to the ground, and it was filled with a jungle. I climbed back down and met one of my mates, who was then shot in the head by a sniper, it was so ruthless I had to run away. I ended up running out of our national musuem ( no idea how the hell that oculd have happened) and onto the street.

I turned around and the mountain was gone, and I was in a strange part of the city. I said to myself thats it I must be dreaming, and I woke up in my bed, which sucked. So I tried again, I went back to sleep and THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FUCKED UP

I was Stan Marsh from South Park, and I was talking to my lucid dream doctor about why I couldnt get my dreams to be fully lucid. I explained this entire topic in full detail, explaining my dreams fully and how I felt about them. He then said I wasnt doing a proper reality check ( I didnt do nearly enough proper checks, I was lazy) and he said we have to dance. So I watched as all the cartoons in the scene, including Stan ( who was me, but I was looking at him as if it was a show) all started dancing in tune and singing. Once it finally ended the doctor said to Stan, so you still think this is real right? Stan said yeah man why not?

The doctor goes dude you are dreaming man, you are so dreaming you moron, we were just dancing around like crazy. Then I woke up...

Just now I was clearing out my dream journal over at Lucidipedia and noticed how big a boatload of dreams were about AC. Seriously, like half of them feature Assassin's Creed in some way or another.
There are also some dreams with the same name, even though their dates are completely different...

Hey, Jack, want to take up the Oneironaut Challenge?

I dont really get lucid dreams often enough to take on a challenge, I would probably just get frustrated. I had a bit of a breakthrough today, had a dream that lasted more than 10 seconds and I flew into space, and eventually got sucked up into a weird tunnel thing...

You can train, you know?

i'm waking up this topic again, cause i wanna save this one dream. i've been playing a lot of Batman Arkhm City lately, so that's probably where this cme from

i think it was that i was playing a new Batman game.

and then i see Harley, two of them to be exact.
one in the standard Harley outfit, the outher in a normal person coat. sitting ext to each other in a car.
then all of a sudden she starts to sing.

i don't remember the song but it was something about how she struggles with her life with the Joker, and she just want to go back to a normal life.
and the two Harleys representing two different personalitys.

apparently it was really beautiful, cause in the dream, i started to cry.
then i woke up, and saw that my pillow had a wet spot, right around eye level, and too small to be drool.

I never had a Lucid Dream.. I tried once, but failed.

Anyway, i had some cool dreams that i remember.

The first Dream was a kinda weird one, and also nerdy too. The dream started with me and my dog jumping off a Battlefield 3 Plane. Then we (me and my dog) started to parachute down into the enemy's airport. When we get there, we hid in a bush. After a while i realised that behind us there was some cars parked and some random citizens laughing and drinking beer while hearing music coming from one of the cars. I was like "Can't they realise they are in the middle of a battlefield ?!". It was really weird because everything, from the weapons to the nature itself, everything looked like the Battlefield 3 graphics.
After a while, the enemy discovered me and my dog hiding in the bushes, then we started running towards a cliff to jump, but when we got there, the cliff transformed into a simple grass road indentical to Minecraft. We didn't mind and kept running and running until we found a bridge. When we get there, the enemies were pretty far but we kept running.. I don't know why, but at that moment i thought that if we run on the roof of the bridge (yeah, the bridge had a roof) we would go faster. My dog didn't wanted to go on the roof, so he kept running normally and i went to the roof and started running there. When we got on the end of the bridge, my dog had transformed into my sister ! And there were my parents and familiars there congratulating me for escaping the enemy.

Well, that was a weird Dream..

I had one last night where the buttons on the till (cash register) at work didn't correspond to the right numbers so, for example, I would try to type in £3.50 but the till would display £4.30 or something - all the numbers were just mixed up. I then had to try to cancel the transaction as it was the wrong amount but random amounts kept getting added and subtracted because I didn't know which button corresponded to which number. The customer was getting really annoyed and confused and my colleague couldn't help either. It was really quite stressful and seemed pretty real.

I think it's linked to the fact that I'll be 18 soon so will have slightly more responsibility at work and will be the head of some shifts when a lot of people are away in August.

Iv been doing a lot of drugs in dreams that I have never done irl. Its been pretty awesome tbh.

Finally made 20 lucid dreams this year. Yay, go me.

As for last night, I dreamed about being in jail, then busting out of there, turning into the boss of the building, cleaning everything up, then being mayor of a bit city, fighting against a rebelling faction and then organizing a feast to celebrate victory.

I seem to boss around people an awful lot in my dreams lately.

I've been having dreams about my drawings really. Dreams that one day this will become a permanent project i hopefully wont give up on.

And I've been dreaming about zombies, too much zombie related stuff in my daily TV watching...i guess.

Als

I have zombie dreams all the time and I rarely watch zombie movies anymore, those dreams are horrible.

Me too. But i watch "The Walking Dead" Alot..

The worst part is when you try to run but you stay still, as if you're stuck in the ground.. And you keep trying to run from the Zombies because they are coming for you but you cannot run, you're stuck. Hate those kind of Nightmares.

My nightmares usually involve me going into a meeting with the boss unprepared or lacking any results from the previous week...

This happens nearly every Thursday IRL too.

lmao^

Lol at Cheese. I'll try to send you some good vibes this Thursday.

Good vibes received... Boss is out of town this Thursday.

Couple that with him being out of town last Thursday, and I might have a solid week's worth of stuff to present after 3 weeks of work.

LOL some more. I was going to say, "I'll send you some good vibes this Thursday and also maybe you might consider working harder", but what's the use of an Internet if we can't browse a bit on the job whilst still looking busy, amirite??!!?

Hey now. It's not like I'm not working hard... but chemistry is chemistry. You can try to manipulate molecules to do what you want, but if they don't want to react, they won't...

Add in a catalyst, apply enough energy (in the correct form) and pretty much everything will react.

Chemistry, you say? I'd love to hear more about what you do. I'm hoping to go to university to study chemistry in October. In fact, I have a chemistry exam tomorrow morning that I've been revising madly all day for and that may well determine whether or not I get into my first choice uni. By the time you see this I'll probably have done it.

Hey Patrick,

I don't do much yet. I'm just beginning my final year of PhD work... assuming I can find a real job next spring. I went to UC Berkeley to study, then my adviser took a job at Yale. I'm in an organic chemistry group, and we do things in the field of C-H bond functionalization, chiral amine synthesis and, my area, development of small molecule inhibitors of enzymes (current targets being phosphatases).

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To whoever started this thread: I'm extremely sorry to have threadjacked...

To get back on topic:

I had a weird dream the other night. It involved a lot of friends from high school that I haven't seen in 10 years. And even then, we didn't go to the same high school (but we did go to the same church).

Anyway, I found out that one of my friends was having a baby boy the "home-made" way. This is how it was referred to in the dream, as in real life she is infertile and has already adopted a girl. Anyway, I was already in Colorado where she lives (I don't know why) so I went over to congratulate her. She lived out in the country/mountains where you could visibly see the stars (not the case in NYC, where I was in real life earlier that day trying to find stars). So we decided to throw a small get-together under the stars to celebrate her pregnancy. Well, word got out that President Obama was coming, because he liked to visit Colorado to see the clear night sky. After that happened, it seemed like ALL our friends were coming in from all over the company. They all had excuses, but I know it was to see Obama. Which is weird, because I'd say with about 95% certainty that all of the people coming in were republicans. I couldn't figure it out until I realized that they were coming because high ranking officials in the church I grew up in (and they still attend) was coming to wish them well with this miracle (see: infertile woman getting pregnant). After this, the dream ended. I only saw a few of my friends, the night sky, a mountain, the University of Colorado mascot (in real life, I talked about Ralphie quite a bit that day... so maybe that's why my mind was in Colorado). I didn't get a chance to see Obama, not even in a dream. It was weird. I had some cake. But nothing else much happened.

Sounds cool, I have had a highschool reunion dream once where I caught up with this guy I used to be friends with. Thing is he wasnt like how I remembered him, he was generally acting the age you would expect him to, kinda weird now that I think about it, I wonder how cloesly he matches it irl

Sounds pretty interesting (and I'm not just saying that)! My exam went pretty well so everything is going to plan in terms of getting into university. I'm quite interested in biological and medicinal chemistry so the enzyme inhibitors sounds cool.

Yeah, sorry I think I had a hand in that hijacking.

To add to the thread properly, I used to have a recurring dream that I was left in the car at night as a young child in the car park of Notcutts (a British garden centre chain) and the burglars from 'Home Alone' approached the car so I ran into the garden centre to get away from them.

It sounds really bizarre but was quite scary as a child. I haven't had it for a long time though, perhaps because I haven't seen 'Home Alone' in a while.

Had one of my most wack dreams yet. In reality I am getting prepared to try magic mushrooms for the second time in my life, about to go hunting now actually. Anyway I think it triggered some crazy ideas because this dream was one of my weird drug dreams.

I started the dream off in a restaurant with my parents, eating a formal dinner. It was a Chinese restaurant but the underground code was that if you saw someone who looked relaxed you could tap them on the neck, if tey didnt move they were on some drug and they would sell it to you. Anyway he gave me the drug, and when I took it things got real bizare. I called it soma but it was like no drug that I have ever known to exist, the entire dream got swalloed up and I went on this strange trip that defied reality.

My entire dream turned into a bunch of geomtric shapes, and then things just got really intense, a huge rush of energy, like my body was just being ripped apart. It felt extremely vivid at the time, maybe I was actually experiencing DMT from the dream? When I came to (when I sobered up in the dream) my entire body was shaking, my Mum was looking at me with a look of horror on her face, I was acutally in shock

last nights dream was technically nothing special, but on the other hand one of the best ones i've had in a long time.
it was just me and a small yellow-orange kitten, i loved it, and as i was hugging it i felt that it loved me.
the whole dream was just us sitting still and being all cuddly.
it was adorable and warm. there might have been a puppy nearby, but it's the cat i remember most.

woke up feeling all fuzzy inside and just happy

Don't know about the DMT, Jack. I'm never high when I wake up from a dream, that's for sure.
Inhibition of your DLPFC combined with hyperactivity of the rest of the brain can lead to some weird shit.

Oooooh, thanks Jack - I think I got a contact high just from reading your description!

I was normal when I woke up, but I was in shock when I came to in the dream restaurant...

Another strange thing is that I think its the same restaurant where I did Opium in a dream. There were these Chinamen lying around on the tables just casually, some would lie on the tables while people were eating, and they would be smoke Opium. As I left the restaurant I grabbed the pipe and had a whiff of it, and my entire body just felt numb and good, was a great feeling. I remember actually craving it later on in the dream and not being able to find the restaurant... it was like I was psychologically addicted to it for a short period.

I dont know much about DMT either but I hear it is released naturally when you dream... I guess dreams themselves could be like a DMT trip?

Yeah, buit I think the concentrations are so small it doesn't really have any effect when compared to weed. At least, that's what I remember from research a year or so ago.

In my dreams I keep reliving the Warriors movie over and over...its kind of sad.

All I figured out from dreams is that I can't run for shit when my life is on the line

Just fly.

Hey have you got any tips for getting into space? I have had one good space dream but the other night I tried flying into space and I just couldnt get out of the earths atmosphere. I might look up some more space videos maybe that will help?

Anyway had a wack dream where I thought I was lucid dreaming in the dream, but I wasnt. In other words I was having a normal dream with no control, but when I recalled it I remember thinking it was a lucid dream, but it wasnt. Hard to describe.

I was playing Black Ops inside a mansion with my mates, literally. We were hunting each other in the house and I had duel pythons, I would aim one pistol at a door and the other pistol at another door with both arms, it was really fun moving around and shooting stuff. I remember saying to my mate dw man its just a dream, however I never actually gained control over it.

Hmmm, that's a tough one. I've never done it myself, but this post from the Lucidipedia forums that might help:
http://www.lucidipedia.com/forum.php?section=viewtopic&p=26586#26586

So try teleporting instead of flying.

At least you made it that far. I recall two times getting stuck in the ceiling when trying to fly.

Heres a tip for learning to fly, look at the ground and start jumping, but double your height every time. Might work for me because I bounced around on a tramploine and daydreamed a lot as a kid.

i just had a horrible dream, i'd probably go as far as to call it a nightmare.

the dream started with seeing a woman at around age 30, she seemed perfectly fine, and she had a thing for dolls, so many dolls in various states of disrepair.
the fact that she's constantly playing with the dolls is a main focus of the dream.

i don't remember all the details, but as time in the dream went on, and she talks to people, neighbors, therapists, etc it becomes more and more clear that there is something not well with this woman.
in the end it turns out, and shown very graphically that these dolls are infact not dolls at all, but small children in various states of health, from alive ad well but scared, to basically carbonated.

the very last moments of the dream ends with a tied up small girl screaming in fear, and the image of a bucnh of children cramped in a closet, sharing the space with corpses.

i'm probably terrible at descriptions, but that was freaky as hell.
and now that i've put it into words, my hands are shaking just a little bit.