User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassin's Creed III in 2011?/@comment-3120686-20110416105320/@comment-10385287-20110416124848

The "Desmond's life is being relived through an Animus" theory has been brought up before, and basically shown to be impossible, as there are no signs in-game that someone is reliving Desmond's life (synchronisation, glitches, etc.).