Will you still be able to have normal dreams?

**FedeDreamer** · 03-25-2012 05:24 PM

Once you start lucid dreaming, and getting really into it, as in doing it with ease, are you still able to dream normally? I ask because I really like the idea of lucid dreaming, but I still want to have normal dreams from time to time.

**Sageous** · 03-25-2012 05:31 PM

Because they are the natural state of things, normal dreams will always be not only possible, but almost always unavoidable.

I've been at this for a very long time, and I've found that the only real side-effect of it all is that there is a little extra awareness in my normal dreams. I almost always have a small sense that "this is a dream," even when my true waking awareness is absent. This has little effect on the dreams themselves (aside from things like making nightmares easily avoidable), so my normal dreams can be just as normal as they should be.

In other words, don't worry about it.

**madvorak** · 03-25-2012 07:48 PM

Yes, you will still have tons of normal dreams.
However I wouldn't mind if all my dreams became lucid

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**Dreamer95** · 03-25-2012 08:06 PM

I agree with madvorak !
I've wondered about that too though, If you mastered your dream signs and reality checks so much that you always had lucid dreams,
Ofcourse I wouldnt have any problem with that

**gab** · 03-25-2012 08:48 PM

Well, you have many dreams each night. Even if you have one lucid dream every night, rest of them will be regular. And as Sageous says, you can have more awareness in regular dreams, or do things you have never done before in RD, like maybe some control, or remembering parts of your waking life, but you will still have majority of dreams the 'old fashioned way', without any interferance.
Happy dreams