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?