Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I was in a dark room. The smell was musty. It smelled like a barn. I looked around the room. There was a woman tied to a chair. It looked like someone had been hitting her. I thought I should get her free and try to heal her wounds. I walked over to her. When she saw me she panicked. She was begging me not to kill her. I didn't know why I would want to kill her. I told her I was going to untie her. She said she wasn't stupid enough to believe that. I figured I could prove it by untying her. I started trying to untie the knot on her right wrist. It was really tight. I asked the woman who had brought her there. She asked what kind of sick game I was playing. She said I had brought her there.

Note: I was thinking that was strange. I remembered being in dreams where I am not myself. I didn't actually admit to myself that I was dreaming, but it made me question whether I really looked like myself right now. I became semi-lucid.

I wanted to know what was going on. If I wasn't myself, then who was I? I looked around the dark room, searching for some kind of reflective surface. I saw nothing. I turned back to the woman in the chair. She obviously knew me. I asked her who I was. She said I was insane. I asked her what my name was. She begged me not to kill her. I asked her again what my name was.

"Altaïr," she finally said, "Your name is Altaïr. But I swear I won't tell anyone. Just please don't kill me..."

Note: That revelation surprised me. I have been dreaming about Assassin's Creed quite a bit lately, so hearing of or seeing Altaïr is a clear dream sign. I became lucid.

So I wanted to know what was going on. Why was Altaïr going to kill this woman? I told her I was not Altaïr. I told her my name is Raven. I asked what Altaïr had wanted from her. She seemed to hesitate. She finally said Altaïr had wanted to know the location of a refugee camp so he could poison the water. She said he had been hired by some dictator named Darmund. She said she hadn't wanted to tell him but he had threatened to kill her children. Poisoning water supplies? Killing children? This didn't fit with the Altaïr I have come to know on the games. I thought she might be lying. But since I was dreaming I could read the truth right out of her mind.

Note: This is a case where having a familiar name appear in a dream helps me know what is going on. If she had been referencing some random character I have never heard of I wouldn't have suspected her of lying...

To get her thinking about the right topic I asked her to confirm that she was saying Altaïr was planning on poisoning a bunch of innocent people. She said yes. But her eyes said more. I suddenly knew the whole story. She was the one who had developed the poison. She had tested it on her own children. The image of the children reaching out to her as they died was etched in my mind. Altaïr had wanted to know where the poison was to be used so he could stop it. She had finally revealed the location under threat of having some of her own poison used on her. I asked how she could poison her own children. She looked shocked. She asked me how I knew. I said her eyes could not lie. Her actions made me ill. I didn't want to be there with her any longer. I figured it was time to leave. I felt myself disassociate from my body...

Note: I actually thought I would wake up here but instead I just lost lucidity.

I was still seeing out of my body but I wasn't controlling what was happening. I (Altaïr) turned back towards the woman. She must've seen something in my (his) eyes because she started struggling to get free again. As I (Altaïr) approached her she was calling out my name (Raven). She was begging me to come back and save her. She was begging me to please not let him kill her. And then he (we) killed her... A knife blade right through her heart (or at least where her heart should've been)

Note: It really looked and felt like I had just killed someone... That isn't something I would ever do in reality, so I kept telling myself it was a dream and I would wake up soon. I believed myself when I said I was dreaming and became lucid again.

I was still just a passenger in the body as Altaïr (I) left the building (which was a barn) and mounted a horse. The horse was a white horse with a red mane. I've never seen one like it in reality. The horse ran as fast as the wind. I knew where we were going. To the refugee camp to stop the poisoning. The camp wasn't far away. They had a makeshift water tower at the edge of the camp where people got their water. Three men were approaching it with a small container, presumably of poison. Altaïr (I) jumped off the horse and drew a sword to engage them in battle. Two of them stayed to fight, but the third headed for the water tower with the poison. I focused on hearing the song Battery by Metallica. That is a song I used to summon a bolt of lightning. A bolt of lightning struck the man with the poison. Now I was in a sword fight with two men. They didn't seem all that skilled. I somehow knew how to handle the sword. I ran it through one of them and removed the other man's head. I had just killed three more people, but this time I knew it was a dream... and I didn't see any other option to keep them from poisoning the water. The last man cursed Altaïr as he died. I was losing the dream. I could tell. I wanted to head off and do more things. I wanted to explore that world a bit. I couldn't hold on to the dream and I woke.

Note: Those images of the kids dying and of that woman begging me to help her were a bit too vivid for my liking. But as dream memories do, they will fade soon. A very intense dream in which I went through a couple stages of lucidity. If only I could have held on to the dream!