Hmmmmmmm….

> if it's true he's distancing this from being a dream and now deciding it's an alternate timeline
After only 8 episodes? What the…?

That… was actually never a thing in any of the AC games. Just sayin'. The closest it got was a strange memory imprint from an alien mini-hard drive within a coma dream.

"Adam, you're fired."
"B-b-but why, Other Adam?"

And the Production Company lived happily ever after. The End.